Question about Devine Mercy

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This is part of the Devine Mercy Chaplet
‘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’

My question is. How can I offer the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ? It was Christ that gave his life. Can anyone clarify this for me?

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Don’t we do that every time we go to Mass? (And if we’re just sitting in the pews thinking about breakfast at Ihop/doughnuts after the service/football later that day/whatever instead, isn’t that what we’re supposed to be doing?)

Is there anything that we have that we could offer instead that hasn’t already been given to us by God? So if we’re going to make an offering of something that doesn’t belong to us, why not choose to offer something of infinite value?

Christ is our Victim and our Priest. But, as Christians, we also share in the priesthood of Christ. Here, for example. As it points, out, don’t forget about 1 Peter:
You too are living stones, built as an edifice of spirit, into a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ (1 Pet 2:5).
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…so we, by earnestly making the DM devotion are also offering up the …‘Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity’…because Jesus made this devotion ‘so’ in the eyes of God the father.

It’s all in the book and vetted as authentic by the great thinkers in the Church.
 
We, being parts of Christ’s mystical Body on earth (Romans 12:5, 1 Corinthians 12:27), are not separated from Him, except by sin. Paul teaches this clearly, and stated that it was no longer Paul who lived but Christ who lived in Paul (Galatians 2:20). It is the same with each believing, baptized Christian. Christ’s offering of Himself to the Father is on-going - it is not confined to human time or history. As parts of Christ’s Body, we may participate in each of His acts, including the offering of Himself to the Father for the salvation of mankind. Thus, just as Christ’s suffering was redemptive, so also can our suffering be redemptive - if we offer it to the Father for eternal good.
 
endaman said:
This is part of the Devine Mercy Chaplet
‘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’

My question is. How can I offer the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ? It was Christ that gave his life. Can anyone clarify this for me?

-EM
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I understand it as offering our union in the Eucharist.
 
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