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White_Peony
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Protestant friend of mine asked me, “Why do Catholics resacrifice Jesus?” What do I say?
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Credo_in_Deum
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You tell him/her that we are not resacrificing Christ but offering the same sacrifice which happened on the Cross 2000 years ago. Christ’s sacrifice holds infinite merit which atones for out infinite offences against God. This means Christ’s sacrifice is not subject to the laws of time. When Catholics go to Mass they are truly present for the Passion and Crucifixion of Our Lord and the realities of this are represented under a different mode (The Mass: The offering of Bread and Wine). This is why Saint Paul says in his first letter to the Corinthians regarding the Holy Mass: **“****For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come. **Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be GUILTY of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.”—1 Corinthian 11:26-29
Catholics and Orthodox that have a valid Eucharist and Holy Orders are the only ones that can point to the Passion and Crucifixion in the Bible and say with true confidence that they were truly present for Our Lords Sacrifice and that they will always be present at Calvary with Christ as often as they attend The Holy Mass.
Catholics and Orthodox that have a valid Eucharist and Holy Orders are the only ones that can point to the Passion and Crucifixion in the Bible and say with true confidence that they were truly present for Our Lords Sacrifice and that they will always be present at Calvary with Christ as often as they attend The Holy Mass.
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Pfaffenhoffen
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It is not RE-sacrifice.Protestant friend of mine asked me, “Why do Catholics resacrifice Jesus?” What do I say?
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It is THE SAME Sacrifice but without pain and suffering.
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Credo_in_Deum
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Here is something Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen said regarding Christs Sacrifice and the Mass.
*What is important at this point is that we take the proper mental *
*attitude toward the Mass, and remember this important fact, that *
*the Sacrifice of the Cross is not something which happened *
*nineteen hundred years ago. It is still happening. It is not *
*something past like the signing of the Declaration of *
*Independence; it is an abiding drama on which the curtain has not *
*yet rung down. Let it not be believed that it happened a long time *
*ago, and therefore no more concerns us than anything else in the *
*past. That is *
*why, when our Blessed Lord ascended the heights of Calvary, He was *
*fittingly stripped of His garments: He would save the world *
*without the trappings of a passing world. His garments belonged to *
*time, for they localized Him, and fixed Him as a dweller in *
*Galilee. Now that He was shorn of them and utterly dispossessed of *
*earthly things, He belonged not to Galilee, not to a Roman *
*province, but to the world. He became the universal poor man of *
the world, belonging to no one people, but to all men…
*Where shall we find Calvary *
perpetuated? We shall find Calvary renewed, re-enacted, re-
*presented, as we have seen, in the Mass. Calvary is one with the *
*Mass, and the Mass is one with Calvary, for in both there is the *
*same Priest and Victim. The Seven Last Words are like the seven *
*parts of the Mass. And just as there are seven notes in music *
*admitting an infinite variety of harmonies and combinations, so *
*too on the Cross there are seven divine notes, which the dying *
*Christ rang down the centuries, all of which combine to form the *
beautiful harmony of the world’s redemption.
*Each word is a part of the Mass. The First Word, “Forgive,” is the *
*Confiteor; the Second Word, “This Day in Paradise,” is the *
*Offertory; the Third Word, “Behold Thy Mother,” is the Sanctus; *
*the Fourth Word, “Why hast Thou abandoned Me,” is the *
*Consecration; the Fifth Word, “I thirst,” is the Communion; the *
*Sixth Word, “It is finished,” is the Ite, Missa Est; the Seventh *
Word, “Father, into Thy Hands,” is the Last Gospel.
*Picture then the High Priest Christ leaving the sacristy of heaven *
*for the altar of Calvary. He has already put on the vestment of *
*our human nature, the maniple of our suffering, the stole of *
*priesthood, the chasuble of the Cross. Calvary is his cathedral; *
*the rock of Calvary is the altar stone; the sun turning to red is *
*the sanctuary lamp; Mary and John are the living side altars; the *
*Host is His Body; the wine is His Blood. He is upright as Priest, *
yet He is prostrate as Victim.
*What is important at this point is that we take the proper mental *
*attitude toward the Mass, and remember this important fact, that *
*the Sacrifice of the Cross is not something which happened *
*nineteen hundred years ago. It is still happening. It is not *
*something past like the signing of the Declaration of *
*Independence; it is an abiding drama on which the curtain has not *
*yet rung down. Let it not be believed that it happened a long time *
*ago, and therefore no more concerns us than anything else in the *
*past. That is *
*why, when our Blessed Lord ascended the heights of Calvary, He was *
*fittingly stripped of His garments: He would save the world *
*without the trappings of a passing world. His garments belonged to *
*time, for they localized Him, and fixed Him as a dweller in *
*Galilee. Now that He was shorn of them and utterly dispossessed of *
*earthly things, He belonged not to Galilee, not to a Roman *
*province, but to the world. He became the universal poor man of *
the world, belonging to no one people, but to all men…
*Where shall we find Calvary *
perpetuated? We shall find Calvary renewed, re-enacted, re-
*presented, as we have seen, in the Mass. Calvary is one with the *
*Mass, and the Mass is one with Calvary, for in both there is the *
*same Priest and Victim. The Seven Last Words are like the seven *
*parts of the Mass. And just as there are seven notes in music *
*admitting an infinite variety of harmonies and combinations, so *
*too on the Cross there are seven divine notes, which the dying *
*Christ rang down the centuries, all of which combine to form the *
beautiful harmony of the world’s redemption.
*Each word is a part of the Mass. The First Word, “Forgive,” is the *
*Confiteor; the Second Word, “This Day in Paradise,” is the *
*Offertory; the Third Word, “Behold Thy Mother,” is the Sanctus; *
*the Fourth Word, “Why hast Thou abandoned Me,” is the *
*Consecration; the Fifth Word, “I thirst,” is the Communion; the *
*Sixth Word, “It is finished,” is the Ite, Missa Est; the Seventh *
Word, “Father, into Thy Hands,” is the Last Gospel.
*Picture then the High Priest Christ leaving the sacristy of heaven *
*for the altar of Calvary. He has already put on the vestment of *
*our human nature, the maniple of our suffering, the stole of *
*priesthood, the chasuble of the Cross. Calvary is his cathedral; *
*the rock of Calvary is the altar stone; the sun turning to red is *
*the sanctuary lamp; Mary and John are the living side altars; the *
*Host is His Body; the wine is His Blood. He is upright as Priest, *
yet He is prostrate as Victim.
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LittleHannah
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The Sacrifice on Calvary was a bloody Sacrifice, but the Sacrifice of the Mass is an un bloody Sacrifice. The two are one and the same.
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in_servitude
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Here’s what I’d do:Protestant friend of mine asked me, “Why do Catholics resacrifice Jesus?” What do I say?
“Thanks for asking me about my faith. I like to discuss my faith with anyone that is interested.” (Now, perhaps this is an on-going conversation - but I usually get hit by something like this and it’s out of the blue, so it works for me.)
Then, ask them to explain further, “What do you mean, ‘re-sacrifice Jesus’?”
My experience is that they are not asking as deep a question as it seems initially. I ask them to give me a better understanding of their question. At times, I know the answer. At other times, I don’t. So, I promise to get back with them with better information.
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timotheos
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Jesus is the Lamb, the eternal sacrifice.Protestant friend of mine asked me, “Why do Catholics resacrifice Jesus?” What do I say?
Thanks!
BTW, that’s the reason why I love the apparition at Knock, Ireland. It must have been real, because an apparition as a figment of imagination or attempt at deception would have represented Christ as a man. Instead, Christ appeared as he truly is.
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