Adding prayers to mass?

[Gorgias]

Please go through the various types of sacrifices offered as mentioned in the Bible ,such as burnt offering,grain offering etc.

Asking for any favours,offering for any particular intentions etc were not all their purpose.

I think you’re confusing “type of offering” with “purpose of offering.” The two are distinct.

In Judges 6, Gideon makes an offering, asking for peace.

In 1 Sam 7, Samuel makes an offering, asking for deliverance from the Philistines.

In 2 Sam 24, David makes an offering, asking for relief from a plague on the land.

Offering a sacrifice for a particular purpose is mentioned explicitly in the Bible, and it seems that God approves of this, since the intentions are described as being granted.

All these were only prelude to the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus.

Agreed. Yet, we live in Jesus’ New Covenant, not in the Mosaic Covenant, so we can’t simply say “what they did then, we do now, and for the same reasons.” Remember – the old covenants were only signs and shadows of Jesus’ covenant. If the “signs and shadows” point to sacrifices for the needs of the community, doesn’t that imply that the Mass not only fulfills those signs, but does so efficaciously?

My view is based on this only…

Got it. Fair enough. (My personal opinion is that you’re mistaken… but, as the saying goes, “that and $0.25 will get you a cup of coffee”… )

 

[JohnLilburne]

The Book of Blessings does include Grace Before Meals, and one of these begins
“Bless us, O Lord, and these your gifts”.

But it is incorrect that this blessing may be done during Mass.

Some blessings in the Book of Blessings may be done in Mass, for example, from the introduction to the Order for the Blessing of a Family:

“43 The blessing of a family may also be carried out within Mass, by use of the order provided in not. 62-67.”

But there are no such instructions for Grace Before Meals, in the Order for the Blessing Before and After Meals.

The 2004 Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum i ncludes the following, which may help with understanding the reason for this:

“[77.] The celebration of Holy Mass is not to be inserted in any way into the setting of a common meal, nor joined with this kind of banquet. Mass is not to be celebrated without grave necessity on a dinner table[159] nor in a dining room or banquet hall, nor in a room where food is present, nor in a place where the participants during the celebration itself are seated at tables. If out of grave necessity Mass must be celebrated in the same place where eating will later take place, there is to be a clear interval of time between the conclusion of Mass and the beginning of the meal, and ordinary food is not to be set before the faithful during the celebration of Mass.”

The full text of Redemptionis Sacramentum is at http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c...doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html .

[Excerpts from the English translation of Book of Blessings © 1987 International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.]

 

[eagerbeaver]

Do you mean the Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts served on ,usually, on Wednesdays and Fridays during the Great Fast

or the traditional offerings made at the Panakhyda on Soul Saturdays ?

 

[Gorgias]

The 2004 Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum i ncludes the following, which may help with understanding the reason for this:

Nah. You’re taking RS out of context, here. The OP isn’t suggesting that the Mass is being conflated with a common meal, which is what RS is warning against.

But it is incorrect that this blessing may be done during Mass.

The argument being made here is that the blessing in question is taking place once the prayer of the Mass is over, but before the congregants have been dismissed. Apples and oranges.

 

[Mary888]

Do you mean the Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts served on ,usually, on Wednesdays and Fridays during the Great Fast

or the traditional offerings made at the Panakhyda on Soul Saturdays ?

Yes. Ten characters.