I said NO!
The word "perpetuated" is a minefield .
G'night.
Of course Mad Dawg is right here. I should have been a little more careful with “perpetuated through time”, as if the one sacrifice were a continuing event. It is not perpetuated “in time” but “in eternity.” At the Mass we enter into eternity and the sacrifice at Cavalry 2000 years ago is made present to us here and now. We err if we think of eternity as a unending series of discreet moments. For God all of time is but a single moment. In answering yes, I was looking more at the idea that the Mass “is not a different sacrifice from that of Calvary, but the same sacrifice.”
Hmmmmmm . . .
The SAME; period . . .
So, are we to conclude that this is more
RC edifice magicsterical double talk . . .
IOW . . .
yet a new term for the RUBBER DICTIONARY . . .
or that there will be a forthcoming explanation via the 5th or 6th dimension . . . . or maybe via Alice’s Rabbit hole?
I haven’t really been following this . . . being away and all . . . but this answer strikes me as very . . . typical . . . RC double-talk;
OR
yet another term from the RC RUBBER DICTIONARY.
. . . .
as in
the SAME is THE SAME
except
when
The magicsterical . . . or maybe a flock of Mary’s hankies . . .
signal that
THE SAME = DIFFERENT.
Of course.