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To: count-your-change
Christ heavenly offering obtained “eternal redemption” and did not need to be repeated or performed on earth

The Holy Eucharist is not a repetition or performance of anything.

It is usually a good idea to know a thing or two about the subject upon which you wish to opine.

6,600 posted on 01/03/2011 8:47:51 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex; count-your-change
The Holy Eucharist is not a repetition or performance of anything.
It is usually a good idea to know a thing or two about the subject upon which you wish to opine.

Well, from the "horse's mouth":

1366 The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit:

[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper "on the night when he was betrayed," [he wanted] to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice (as the nature of man demands) by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit.

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."

6,607 posted on 01/03/2011 9:10:47 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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