=AdriannaJean;5272037]Hey Everyone,
While watching a cute video on youtube called “Altar-ation” where a bunch of people change a modern, minimalistic altar into a beautiful high altar, I was struck by the thought that altars were a pagan thing where sacrifices were offered. Why would Christianity adopt this?
I’m probably overlooking something rather obvious, would someone be so kind as to set me straight?
“The Church” simply follows Jewish historical Tradition going back to the time of Abraham.
It was a "Jewish Yahweh God [the GREAT “I AM] practice” at the same time, BUT for vastly different reasons than pagan worship.
The Euchurist is a three-way Sacramental Sacrifice of:
Christ Sacrifice
Of “Communion” giving of Himself
Of Worship and praise.
1323 “At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet ‘in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.’”
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.” “And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner. . . this sacrifice is truly propitiatory.”
1689 “The Eucharistic Sacrifice. When the celebration takes place in church the Eucharist is the heart of the Paschal reality of Christian death. In the Eucharist, the Church expresses her efficacious communion with the departed: offering to the Father in the Holy Spirit the sacrifice of the death and resurrection of Christ, she asks to purify his child of his sins and their consequences, and to admit him to the Paschal fullness of the table of the Kingdom. It is by the Eucharist thus celebrated that the community of the faithful, especially the family of the deceased, learn to live in communion with the one who “has fallen asleep in the Lord,” by communicating in the Body of Christ of which he is a living member and, then, by praying for him and with him”
