Can you explain the sacrifice of the Mass?

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Christ is not just watching events. He is our High Priest interceding for us with the Father exercising His unique Mediatorship. Bringing to remembrance to the Father and us that same once for all sacrifice of the Cross. Making it present, to us, at Mass that we might eat our Passover Lamb. Just as the Israelites ate their Passover lamb. [Jn 6:55 My flesh IS meat indeed, my blood IS drink indeed.]

]Malacahi 1:11 **For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in Every Place incense shall be offered unto my name, and A Pure Offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.]

The prophecy of Malachi tells us Gentiles will offer incense and make a pure offering (sacrifice) to the Lord’s Name from the rising to setting of the sun in every place. That is fulfilled in the Catholic Church as that same once for all sacrifice of the cross is made present at Mass. Celebrated by priests in every parish daily in all places of the world. The Orthodox Church has this same pure offering also.

The fruit, of the the Tree of Life=Cross, our Passover Lamb is eaten at mass. [Hb 2:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

[1Jn 2:1 **My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.]

[Hb9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; **but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:]

Better Sacrifices, plural, because that once for all sacrifice of Christ is made sacramentally present to us every time mass is offered. This Is my body, this Is my blood, with these words the living memorial sacrifice is accomplished by the sacaramental separation of body and blood showing forth Christ’s death.

[1Cor10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: **ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.] Paul views the Lord’s supper, as a sacrificial offering.

[Hb3:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.] An altar is a table of sacrifice.

[Hb7:25 Wherefore **he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.]

[Hb12:22 but **ye are come unto mount sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to GOD the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.]

We come in worship at Mount Sion, heavenly Jerusalem, offering, the sacrifice of the mass, the body and blood of Christ to the Father. Thru prayer we have access to all in Heavenly Jerusalem, to angles, to the church in heaven (assembly of the first born) to God the judge, to spirits (souls) of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator, to the blood. We have access to all in heaven when in worship or prayer (communion of saints). There is no longer any dividing walls or veil separating us from the Holy of Holies.

[Eph2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;] The Temple had walls separating Jews and Gentiles. [Mk15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.]

[Hb10:19 **Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;]

[Lk22:28 **Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. 29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; 30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.] We can now eat and drink at the Lord’s table daily, many do, but most especially on the Lord’s day Sunday.

Ps23: Thou prepares a table before me in the presents of my enemies.
 
To add to what has already been said…

Jesus as God means his actions transcend time and space.

So yes, we are there at the foot of the cross with the blessed Mother and the apostle John…and all Catholics worldwide as we are all in the same communion.

That’s how we can confidently say that Malachi 1:11 has been fulfilled:
Malachi 1:11New King James Version (NKJV)
11 For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down,
My name shall be great among the Gentiles;
In every place incense shall be offered to My name,
And a pure offering;
For My name shall be great among the nations,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
This is a prophecy about us(Gentiles) and there is only one pure offering(Jesus). Only the apostolic Churchs’(RCC/EO) fulfill this ‘incense and pure offering’ from sun up to sun down.

It’s similar for protestants who read the bible. The text becomes alive for them and they can feel it in their souls. Well, same principle, it’s like we enter into the Gospels by reading it.
 
If I take a snap shot of you and show it to three different people, am I reproducing this shot three times or am I showing this SAME SHOT THREE TIMES?
 
I also found this to be an interesting reference. So, by “participating in the body of Christ” you mean a literal participation in his actual sacrifice on Calvary through some sort of a time warp or something? That’s what it seems like you’re suggesting. Not judging it, just wondering. I think it’s a very interesting concept.
Yes. The mass is a real re-presentation of Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice and resurrection. Not by way of a new sacrifice of Christ, but by that particular moment in time being made truly present again during the Mass for Christians to unite themselves and their own personal sacrifices to. We are in communion with Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice and resurrection. It’s part of how we understand Christ’s use of the greek word anamnesis during the last supper in a Christian sense, which is commonly translated as “in memory of” or in “remembrance of”, but for which the English language doesn’t convey the sense of very well. Anamnesis would also be comparable to the Hebrew zekher, and the Christian understanding developed from that.
 
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