Houses of worship become, by consecration, places of prayer, and in fact, after being anointed with holy oil, they become as their name indicates. The anointing that is poured out is our mediator with the coming God, because it is He who is poured out in Himself and who became an anointing and was poured out even to our nature.

The same important structures are offered by the hand of the Savior, and we receive from the table honored by the anointing the bread as if we were receiving from his all-pure hand his holy body and drinking all his blood as the apostles drank it when our Savior gave them when he raised the cup in honor of this invincible drink. And since he became at the same time priest and table, victim and passover, servant and offering, Christ divided his roles between the bread of sanctification and the anointing. The Savior is table and victim because of the anointing. The table becomes what it is through the anointing and the priests become what they are as anointed ones. The Savior is a victim because of the suffering of the cross and the death he endured for the glory of God his Father, “for we daily eat his flesh and drink his blood and proclaim his resurrection” (Cor. 11:26).

Christ is an anointing and a seal also because of the Holy Spirit and he has to accomplish the many holy tasks and sanctify. He was not the subject of sanctification. The role goes back to the altar, to the sacrificer, to the offerer, not to the offering, not to the victim. It has been said that the altar sanctifies, “The altar sanctifies the offering” (Matthew 23:19). And as bread he offered and as an anointing he offered after he deified his body and offered us after he made us partakers of his anointing. So Jacob anointed the stone symbolically and then offered it to the Lord. And by this anointing he meant the body of the Lord the Savior, the cornerstone on which the true Israel was built, who alone knew the Lord. He poured out the anointing of divinity or us so that Christ might establish from us a seed for Abraham through the holy seal because the holy anointing by being poured out on the sealed becomes, among other things, the spirit of sonship. This spirit bears witness to our spirit that we are children of God… (Romans 8:15). Thus the seal contributes to building life in Christ.