Understanding What is referred to as the
"Sacrifice of the Mass"
Current Concepts are not Biblically Valid
Email: At 08:47 AM 24-11-2010, you wrote: (spelling errors and punctuation corrected)
Dear Father David,
Is the Catholic Mass a Eucharistic sacrifice which the Church of Christ says it is a representation of the Crucifixion at Calvary and the Body of Christ and Blood of Christ given to us is the same Body and Blood at Calvary against your suggestion that the mass is an offering?
Yours sincerely in Christ,
Jeremy W.
The following is the response:
In my acceptance of the Bible as authoritative (concepts must be put into practice when properly understood in Scriptural context ) I believe that Satan and his minions have slowly and meticulously undermined the very core of the content of what continually takes place (was, is, and will be taking place) at the Last Supper table. Jesus did good works throughout His life and offered these up to God, His and our Father, during the Last Supper along with all other offerings presented through Him throughout history. At the Last Supper table He said, "this is My Body (in its present living condition with life sustaining blood flowing within) which will be given up for you and for the many.
Note: The concepts found in Scripture, while occurring in place and time, deal with human nature and must be read and understood from that perspective. Human nature does not change with the environment, development of science, form of government, or any other condition relating to life. Scripture is about human nature and its inherent problems even though it takes place in particular times and locations. We must love God and to do so we must concentrate on the virtues that oppose the seven capital sins. The sins leading to the eternal fires of Hell are: Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth. All of these sins are found in human nature and do not change in different eras.
At the Last Supper table, in which we all share, Jesus has not yet suffered and died. We are participating at the Last Supper table before His death, not afterwards (divine beings are not restricted to location or time nor to forms or numbers of existences). Jesus is offering His life's works, in which we are expected to participate according to our own abilities, along with His propitiatory (appeasement / conciliatory offering to the Father ) suffering and death which is to take place tomorrow (the next day in relation to the universal Last Supper that takes place only once).
NAB Mt 26:26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said, "Take and eat; this is my (living) body (the "Bread of Life" containing His circulating blood)."
Mk 14:22 While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is my body."
Lk 22:19 Then he took the bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory (keeping in mind my works and teachings) of me." 20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you."
1Co 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, 24 and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, "This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 25 In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
Jn. 6:60 Then many of his disciples who were listening said, "This saying is hard; who can accept it?" 61 Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, "Does this shock you? 62 What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe." Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. 65 And he said, "For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father." 66 As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. (Jesus did not call them back and tell them that they had misunderstood the meaning of His words.)
To share in His blood (universal and timeless propitiatory offering), in faith, we are to do the works assigned to each one of us and offer them to the Father as He is will be doing on "Good Friday". Note: Old Testament offerings made in faith, according to the law, are only effective after Jesus' death when on the "Feast of First Fruits" He leads the souls of the just into eternal life.
At the table (altar) of offering a moral ministerial priest acts in persona Christi, that is, the universal and timeless High Priest is actually acting in unison with the body and voice of the temporal moral priest to pronounce the words of consecration. The consecrated Hosts are the living body and blood of Jesus (combined they constitute the Bread of Life) before His suffering and death. Undistributed Hosts, consecrated by a moral ministerial priest and placed in a tabernacle, are properly to be adored (since Jesus is a Divine Being) by true believers in the Word of God that accept the authority of the moral successors of Peter.
Sincerely in Jesus Christ,
Fr. David Trosch
Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 2010
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