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My whole point is that there are no “new Christs” or secondary Christs or anything like that. The priest, through his ordination, becomes a participant, in persona Christi, in that one sacrifice, which is that same sacrifice still offered in the Mass. He does not become a separate Christ, just as the Mass is not a separate, smaller, if you will, emulation of Calvary.

Part of your misunderstanding is based on the fact that Protestants see ordination as a functional thing, that is, the person ordained is actually just commissioned by the community to perform a particular function, whether preaching or presiding over the symbolic gesture of a Protestant communion service, etc.

The concept of the priesthood and ordination in Catholicism is entirely different.

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Does he stand for Christ? What does the word Vicar mean? I know you believe it is the self same sacrifice, and that too is an abomination before God and Christ who completed that sacrifice, that was accepted by the Father as demonstrated by the resurrection

You keep re slaying Christ and drinking his body and eating His body, you do not accept the work of the cross unless men keep doing it over and over

Men always want to be in control..Gen 3:5 — For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

[GoLightly]

Chapter 15. Bishops and Deacons; Christian Reproof. Appoint, therefore, *for yourselves* bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men meek, and not lovers of money, and truthful and proved; for they also render to you the service of prophets and teachers. -snip-

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/didache-roberts.html