Why do we say and do the same thing at Mass?

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My husband is a recent Catholic and he has asked me why we do and say the same thing at every Mass. He does not understand why we pray the same prayers over and over, do the same things, and the Priest doing the same also. Could you please help me give him an intelligent answer. Thanks for your help. Carol, from California
 
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Well, the readings change each day. But the reality of our Lord’s passion and death doesn’t change, thank God. The effects of His love on Calvary remain the same—and this is what we celebrate at Mass. His blood separated from His body on the altar tells us that He died. It wasn’t an act. God actually suffered torture and death for each of us. At Mass this reality is present to us by His very real sacramental presence. “Dying He destroyed our death. Rising He restored our life.” When we understand this, it is too wonderful for us to want anything else. That God who created each of us from absolutely nothing (ZERO), would join us in our human journey and then allow Himself to suffer the worst that human life can offer and then actually die to show us something of His infinite love for us in a way that we could somewhat understand—boggles the mind. In several life-times one could not begin to exhaust the meaning of what the Mass is all about. And this reality is the same today as it was on Good Friday. We couldn’t possibly want it otherwise!

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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