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That Jesus’ sacrifice was not enough and we need to sacrifice more? What justification do we have for having a sacrifice of a mass? Does that conflict with our Lord’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection?
 
The sacrifice of the mass is not in addition to Christ’s sacrifice. It is one and the same. Opponents of the Church on this issue argue against a strawman. They do not believe as do we, that Christ’s work on Calvary extends through time.

CCC#1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: “The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different.”
 
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That Jesus’ sacrifice was not enough and we need to sacrifice more? What justification do we have for having a sacrifice of a mass? Does that conflict with our Lord’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection?
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Christ set the example of his sacrifice. His sacrifice is enough for his example leads us into our salvation, we need only to follow his example. The mass is the reminder of his sacrifice. It is through the mass that we are led to him (his sacrifice). It does not conflict with his passion, death and resurrection because it (the mass) is his passion death and resurrection. The mass is the testimony of his life and his life is the sacrifice that he makes; therefore his mass, his life and his sacrifice are all in union. This union is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is found with Jesus and the Church (mass).
 
The Mass is Calvary made present on the altar, transcending time. Moreover, we were commanded by Christ to celebrate the Mass when, at the Last Supper, He told the Apostles to “do this as a memorial sacrifice of me.”
Luke 22:19
Then he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’

Here is a Catholic Answers Tract answering just this question.
The Institution of the Mass
“Do this in remembrance of me” can also be translated as “Offer this as my memorial sacrifice.” The Greek term for “remembrance” is anamnesis, and every time it occurs in the Protestant Bible (whether in the New Testament or the Greek Old Testament), it occurs in a sacrificial context. For example, it appears in the Greek translation of Numbers 10:10: “On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; they shall serve you for remembrance [anamnesis] before your God: I am the Lord your God.” Thus the Eucharist is a remembrance, a memorial offering we present to God to plead the merits of Christ on the cross.
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That Jesus’ sacrifice was not enough and we need to sacrifice more?
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We respond to this by saying “you’re wrong”
What justification do we have for having a sacrifice of a mass?
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God commands that to fulfill the requirements of the old covenant, and thus to enter into the new, that we must participate in the Passover Sacrifice of Christ. How did God ordain that we do that? He stipulated that we must eat the Body and drink the Blood of the Lamb.

There is no other way. Either we participate in the grace from this Paschal Sacrifice (starting with Baptism), or we are dead.
Does that conflict with our Lord’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection?
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No. It cannot conflict. Why? Because the mass and the passion are not two separate sacrifices… they are one and the same.
 
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