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Jerome1974
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When we pray “…I offer you the body and blood, soul and divinity of…” I have the faith, of course, that it’s all correct, but I’d like to understand.
How can we offer God the father something that isn’t ours? Is it that we’re offering the Holy Eucharist? If so, then we shouldn’t be receiving it, right? Is it that we’re sacrificing any benefit to ourselves that the Eucharist would confer upon us so that we can have God direct those benefits to the remission of “…our sins and those of the whole world”? Are we merely praying along with God the son that his sacrifice of his “…body and blood, soul and divinity…” will remit the sins of mankind?
Sorry to split hairs. I’m just one of those precision guys.
How can we offer God the father something that isn’t ours? Is it that we’re offering the Holy Eucharist? If so, then we shouldn’t be receiving it, right? Is it that we’re sacrificing any benefit to ourselves that the Eucharist would confer upon us so that we can have God direct those benefits to the remission of “…our sins and those of the whole world”? Are we merely praying along with God the son that his sacrifice of his “…body and blood, soul and divinity…” will remit the sins of mankind?
Sorry to split hairs. I’m just one of those precision guys.