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I’ve recently tried praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet, and I do like it. I just get confused at the Eternal Father prayer.

Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.

How do I offer the Father the Body and Blood of Jesus? This confuses me a lot. Shouldn’t I be accepting the Body and Blood, not offering it?

Any help with this would be much appreciated. I can’t recite it without getting caught up in wondering what it means.
 
I’m sure others will go into more detail but to me it’s about how The Father wants us to approach Him and that is through His beloved Son. So we offer God The Father the only fitting offering, His Son (body, blood, soul & divinity a.k.a. completely) when we come to Him with our petitions. Its a bit more elaborate than asking The Father in Jesus’s Name.
 
Thank you for asking that question… because I want to know too. I don’t understand it either.
 
Ed_Silvia said:
I’m sure others will go into more detail but to me it’s about how The Father wants us to approach Him and that is through His beloved Son. So we offer God The Father the only fitting offering, His Son (body, blood, soul & divinity a.k.a. completely) when we come to Him with our petitions. Its a bit more elaborate than asking The Father in Jesus’s Name.
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Yes, I understand that God wants us to come to Him through Jesus, but Jesus is not ours to offer. How could we?

I don’t know if this is the view of the OP or not (forgive me if I’m stealing the thread… I hope I’m not, butI hope I’m adding to the discussion) but it sounds to me a bit arrogant to say that we can offer God’s son back to God, like he is ours to do whatever we want with. Sometimes I feel it can be taken maybe in a way giving Him back to God- as in we don’t want Him too. (That’s how it sometimes *sounds *to me) It also sounds like we think so highly of ourselves that we think we own God. ?? That is scary to me.

Of course I don’t really believe that these are the correct connotations, but I find it very confusing.
 
It is because Jesus himself offered his own blood to save the human race. In the OT the blood of animals -lambs was what it was offered to God to forgive our sins- when Jesus comes he takes upon himself being the lamb of good and offers his own body and blood for the expiation of the sins of the world. We say that because every time we say that phrase we remind God the father of his son’s sacrifice for all humans and in the name of Jesus blood lord grant us his mercy. Hopefully I am explaining clear enough it is not arrogant from us to offer Jesus because Jesus’ blood was the only acceptable sacrifice to God (otherwise we would still be sacrificing lambs as in the OT). Jesus’ sacrfixie was the perfect and only acceptable sacrifice to God’s eyes hence that is what we offer.
 
marymary1975 said:
It is because Jesus himself offered his own blood to save the human race. In the OT the blood of animals -lambs was what it was offered to God to forgive our sins- when Jesus comes he takes upon himself being the lamb of good and offers his own body and blood for the expiation of the sins of the world. We say that because every time we say that phrase we remind God the father of his son’s sacrifice for all humans and in the name of Jesus blood lord grant us his mercy. Hopefully I am explaining clear enough it is not arrogant from us to offer Jesus because Jesus’ blood was the only acceptable sacrifice to God (otherwise we would still be sacrificing lambs as in the OT). Jesus’ sacrfixie was the perfect and only acceptable sacrifice to God’s eyes hence that is what we offer.
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Yes, but how is Jesus ‘ours’ to give? If all we have (according to scripture) to give is our lives, then is it not that all we have to offer is our lives to Jesus in obedience to Him? Would it not be Jesus’s decision how He offers us to God through Himself?

I really hope my concerns are not offensive… I really struggle to understand this.
 
marymary1975 said:
We say that because every time we say that phrase we remind God the father of his son’s sacrifice for all humans and in the name of Jesus blood lord grant us his mercy.
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This has got to be the best explanation I’ve heard.

We are not offering the actual Sacrifice of the Mass, we are asking God to remember Jesus’ sacrifice and show us mercy.
 
Thanks for your replies so far, and AnneElizabeth of course you aren’t stealing the thread, I’m glad I’m not the only one who is confused. I just find it hard to wrap my head around that we would need to remind God of Jesus’ sacrifice.

I guess why it bothers me is the old complaint of saying prayers mindlessly, and I don’t want to repeat and repeat without understanding.
 
We offer God The Father the only means by which we obtain His forgiveness & the only reparation of our sins, that is, the Body, Blood Soul & Divinity of His Beloved Son Jesus Christ. We claim Christ as our’s to offer to God The Father.

John 16:23 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

At every mass the priest makes this offering of Christ’s Body, Blood, Soul & Divinity to the Father on our behalf in the form of consecrated bread & wine. In the chaplet of Divine Mercy we do this in a spiritual way.
 
AnneElizabeth said:
Yes, but how is Jesus ‘ours’ to give? If all we have (according to scripture) to give is our lives, then is it not that all we have to offer is our lives to Jesus in obedience to Him? Would it not be Jesus’s decision how He offers us to God through Himself?

I really hope my concerns are not offensive… I really struggle to understand this.
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That is a good question and many more may be confused about it as well.

Jesus is the perfect sacrifice and gift to the Father. I believe we would all agree to this…that nothing could please the heavenly Father more than his only beloved Son whom the Father has loved from all eternity. So …if… we could offer Jesus, than He would be the very best offering.

The church teaches us that the priest at Mass changes the bread and wine on the altar into the very body and blood of Jesus. And then the priest offers Jesus to the Father as Jesus offered himself on Calvary, being the one and same sacrifice. But during the Mass when the priest lifts up the body and blood of Jesus changed at Mass, we too unite our suffers, joys, actions, prayers, and life in union with Jesus being offered, and with the priest, who is the principal offerer, offer Jesus and ourselves to our Heavenly Father by virtue of our being made a priestly people by baptism. So in our priestly role with the priest at the altar, we do offer Jesus to the Father, for ourselves and for the whole world.

So when we say the divine mercy chaplet, we say “Eternal Father, we offer you the body and blood, soul and divinity, of your dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and for those of the whole world.” By saying this we are uniting ourselves to all the Masses around the world in which Jesus himself is being offered to his heavenly Father for us and the whole world.

So it enhances the prayer to keep this in mind when saying the prayer, and then unite ourself to all those offering Jesus in all the Masses everywhere. For that was Jesus’ very own offering when he died for the whole world.

May God bless and keep you. May God’s face shine on you. May God be kind to you and give you peace.
 
Ed_Silvia said:
We offer God The Father the only means by which we obtain His forgiveness & the only reparation of our sins, that is, the Body, Blood Soul & Divinity of His Beloved Son Jesus Christ. We claim Christ as our’s to offer to God The Father.

John 16:23 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

At every mass the priest makes this offering of Christ’s Body, Blood, Soul & Divinity to the Father on our behalf in the form of consecrated bread & wine. In the chaplet of Divine Mercy we do this in a spiritual way.
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This helps, thank you- now it makes a lot more sense.
 
fred_conty said:
That is a good question and many more may be confused about it as well.

Jesus is the perfect sacrifice and gift to the Father. I believe we would all agree to this…that nothing could please the heavenly Father more than his only beloved Son whom the Father has loved from all eternity. So …if… we could offer Jesus, than He would be the very best offering.

The church teaches us that the priest at Mass changes the bread and wine on the altar into the very body and blood of Jesus. And then the priest offers Jesus to the Father as Jesus offered himself on Calvary, being the one and same sacrifice. But during the Mass when the priest lifts up the body and blood of Jesus changed at Mass, we too unite our suffers, joys, actions, prayers, and life in union with Jesus being offered, and with the priest, who is the principal offerer, offer Jesus and ourselves to our Heavenly Father by virtue of our being made a priestly people by baptism. So in our priestly role with the priest at the altar, we do offer Jesus to the Father, for ourselves and for the whole world.

So when we say the divine mercy chaplet, we say “Eternal Father, we offer you the body and blood, soul and divinity, of your dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and for those of the whole world.” By saying this we are uniting ourselves to all the Masses around the world in which Jesus himself is being offered to his heavenly Father for us and the whole world.

So it enhances the prayer to keep this in mind when saying the prayer, and then unite ourself to all those offering Jesus in all the Masses everywhere. For that was Jesus’ very own offering when he died for the whole world.

May God bless and keep you. May God’s face shine on you. May God be kind to you and give you peace.
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YES. I was going to try to explain some of this, but all I had was a vague picture/intuition in my mind. Here it’s explained perfectly and with much more than I knew.
 
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