When was the first Mass offered?

[masnert]

I have some Catholic friends who say that the first Mass was not until around the reformation. I say that the first Mass was on Holy Thursday. But they also say that there is no purgatory, no mortal sin, the Pope is old fashioned, etc.

 

[Fr.Vincent_Serpa]

Hi,

Every Mass is the celebration of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday. When our Lord instituted the Eucharist on Holy Thursday, it was in anticipation of what was to occur the next day. The Lord’s death on the cross is THE Mass. There is only one sacrifice that Jesus offered. Every Mass is a celebration of the same sacrifice.

This is from 70 AD

“Assemble on the Lord’s day, and break bread and offer the Eucharist; but first make confession of your faults, so that your sacrifice may be a pure one. Anyone who has a difference with his fellow is not to take part with you until he has been reconciled, so as to avoid any profanation of your sacrifice [Matt. 5:23–24]. For this is the offering of which the Lord has said, ‘Everywhere and always bring me a sacrifice that is undefiled, for I am a great king, says the Lord, and my name is the wonder of nations’ [Mal. 1:11, 14]” (Didache 14 [A.D. 70]).

See this for more evidence that the Mass was around long, long before the Reformation:

catholic.com/library/Sacrifice_of_the_Mass.asp

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.