Past and present together at one moment?

[Crown_of_Stars]

I’ve always known the Mass was special, but my heart was really stirred after I listened to a talk given by a priest (I can’t remember the Father’s name, but it isn’t important) He went into depth, talking about the Mass, and how at the moment of Consecration, it is the only time when the past and present are brought together, and that we truly are there, at Calvary, at the foot of the Cross, as it was two thousand years ago. Having heard this, a shiver crept all through me (a good shiver) and it is now even as I reiterate what he said. He made it sound as though it was literal, and not just symbolic. He also said that once we are there, inside the church at Mass, we have truly entered another realm, and we are separated in time from the world around us and outside of the church building. I had never thought of it all quite this way before, and as I said, what this priest had to say really stirred something in me and I found it extremely interesting. Now the Mass will be even more special to me than it already is. Just when I truly can never quite grasp that I receive Jesus, literally, into me at Communion, I will know that I am truly at the foot of the Cross.
But this is what I wonder. Is this literally true? Or still symbolic? I know Communion is literal, so that isn’t an issue at all with me…It’s the thought of being really there at the foot of the Cross. Is it really that that day at Golgotha, over two thousand years ago, is brought down before us, though we can’t see it, but it’s there and we are there?

 

[fred_conty]

The Mass is not a repetition of Christ’s sacrifice. It is the same sacrifice. Not a repeated one, or an additional one, or a subsequent one, or another one, or a sequential one, or a renewed one. It’s the same one. The one at Calvary. That one.The one continually offered by the Son to the Father. There are no sacrifices. There is the One Sacrifice. Which is made present to us at the altar, in the Eucharist.

Mass is not a re-presentation of the Last Supper. Mass is a re-presentation of Calvary, and Communion is a share of the Father’s beloved Son given to us from this sacrifice, to confirm our union with Him thru His Son, as well as to confirm it as the most pleasing sacrificial offering.

It means plugging into good Friday in such a way as to make it present once more. Re-call.

It’s not A propitiatory sacrifice. It’s THE propitiatory sacrifice. The same one. Not another, repeated, added, etc., etc. The one oblation of Christ once offered. Offered on Calvary. Offered perpetually before the Father. Made present to us at the altar, as we are brought to stand where the witnesses stood that day, time and eternity intersecting

The sacrifice of the cross is the sacrifice of the Mass. None other.

 

[GLam8833]

The sacrifice of the mass, to me is
a “commemoration” of Christ’s sacr-
ifice on the Cross. “Do this in memory
of Me” Christ told His disciples at the
Last Supper. “As often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you proclaim
Christ’s death until He comes” 1 Cor.
11:26 We perpetuate the Sacrifice of
Christ on the Cross at communion and
“celebrate” (CCC 1104) His offering of
Himself for us, the Church.

 

[hazcompat]

Time and “no time” embrace. Heaven on earth. I love to hear the priest say …“and so Father we bring you these gifts…”

Peace

 

[Wesrock]

It is true.