I need help.

[bigbear62040]

I need some priestly advice. I want to get my mother into the Catholic faith, I think she would be happy with it, as I am. The problem is that she doesn’t want to attend RCIA (personally, I think she’s afraid). What do I say to her to guide her towards the true church. She’s religious to a point. She loves all of the Catholic memorabilia that I have (crucifixes, rosaries, etc.), she listens to gospel music, and she even reads her bible, but I can’t get her to go to mass with me. I’m stumped as to what to say or do, but I don’t want to push her away either. Help! Thanks in advance.

 

[DavidFilmer]

I can’t get her to go to mass with me.

Why not?

What keeps your mother from going to a church service with her son? I’m presuming she would willingly go to dinner, or a movie, or whatever with you. Why not Mass? She seems to respect Catholic devotionals, but not the Mass. Why not?

Find out the answer to that question, and you will know how to proceed.

 

[Answersplease]

I hear “Midnight Mass” is a very beautiful sight to see.

With Christmas coming up, you might want to cordially keep promoting the idea that it would be very nice to see the Midnight Mass at the nearest Catholic Cathedral.

As for getting her to attend a mass sooner, maybe you can get her to do it as a favor for you.

Also, if you have’nt already, you can explain what the mass actually is.

Lots of people think the mass is just a Catholic worship service,

but if I am correct in my understanding of it, the Catholics say you and she will actually be going back to Calvary, you will see the Lord making His sacrifice for one and all time.

catholic.com//library/Institution_of_the_Mass.asp

 

[Answersplease]

I hear “Midnight Mass” is a very beautiful sight to see.

With Christmas coming up, you might want to cordially keep promoting the idea that it would be very nice to see the Midnight Mass at the nearest Catholic Cathedral.

As for getting her to attend a mass sooner, maybe you can get her to do it as a favor for you.

Also, if you have’nt already, you can explain what the mass actually is.

Lots of people think the mass is just a Catholic worship service,

but if I am correct in my understanding of it, the Catholics say you and she will actually be going back to Calvary, you will see the Lord making His sacrifice for one and all time.

catholic.com//library/Institution_of_the_Mass.asp

As I understand it, the Catholics say that God exists outside of time.

In other words, God encompasses time, time does not encompass God.

For The Lord, His sacrifice is ever present, The Lord is the same yesterday, today and tommorrow.

Q:“ Why is the Mass called the “unbloody” sacrifice of our Lord on his cross?
”A: It’s quite simple, really. The Mass is called an unbloody sacrifice to clarify the fact that we do not behold the Lord’s bloody body as it was seen on Calvary. Instead his body and blood are under the appearances of bread and wine. But it is the same sacrifice. This distinction became necessary as the result of the denial of the Mass being a sacrifice by various Protestant groups.

Fr. Vincent Serpa

catholic.com/thisrock/quickquestions/keyword/sacrifice

THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

One Catholic doctrine that has been under threat is the sacrificial nature of the Mass. Some have tried to portray the Eucharist simply as a fellowship meal among Christians in which we receive Jesus. But it is more. The Pope stresses:

“The Eucharist is a sacrifice in the strict sense, and not only in a general way, as if it were simply a matter of Christ’s offering himself to the faithful as their spiritual food. The gift of his love and obedience to the point of giving his life is in the first place a gift to his Father. Certainly it is a gift given for our sake, and indeed that of all humanity, yet it is first and foremost a gift to the Father” (13).

Against the horizontal or community-centered approach taken in many parishes, the Pope reminds us that the primary dimension of the Eucharist is vertical or God-centered: The Eucharist makes present Christ’s sacrifice in which he gives himself in love to the Father for our sake.

Christ clearly intended the Eucharist to be understood as a sacrifice, as the Pope points out: “In instituting it, he did not merely say: ‘This is my body,’ ‘this is my blood,’ but went on to add: ‘which is given for you,’ ‘which is poured out for you.’ Jesus did not simply state that what he was giving them to eat and drink was his body and his blood; he also expressed its sacrificial meaning and made sacramentally present his sacrifice which would soon be offered on the Cross for the salvation of all” (12).

catholic.com/library/cag_ecclesia_de_eucharista.asp

 

[Answersplease]

Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant fears his master; If then I am a father, where is the honor due to me? And if I am a master, where is the reverence due to me?-- So says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise his name. But you ask, “How have we despised your name?”
Malachi 1:7
By offering polluted food on my altar! Then you ask, “How have we polluted it?” By saying the table of the LORD may be slighted!
Malachi 1:8
2 When you offer a blind animal for sacrifice, is this not evil? When you offer the lame or the sick, is it not evil? Present it to your governor; see if he will accept it, or welcome you, says the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 1:9
So now if you implore God for mercy on us, when you have done the like Will he welcome any of you? says the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 1:10
3 Oh, that one among you would shut the temple gates to keep you from kindling fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts; neither will I accept any sacrifice from your hands,

Malachi 1:11
For from the rising of the sun, even to its setting, my name is great among the nations; And everywhere they bring sacrifice to my name, and a pure offering; For great is my name among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.

Everywhere the Nations (Gentiles), bring a PURE offering to sacrifice to the LORD.
There is only one religion I can think of that has fulfilled that scripture.

Malachi 1:12
But you behave profanely toward me by thinking the LORD’S table and its offering may be polluted, and its food slighted.
Malachi 1:13
You also say, “What a burden!” and you scorn it, says the LORD of hosts; You bring in what you seize, or the lame, or the sick; yes, you bring it as a sacrifice. Shall I accept it from your hands? says the LORD.
Malachi 1:14
Cursed is the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, but under his vow sacrifices to the LORD a gelding; For a great King am I, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.