[Iscool]

Eternal Father, I offer you the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of your beloved Son Jesus Christ In atonement for my sins AND THOSE OF THE WHOLE WORLD.

I don't get this...How do you guys figure you can offer Jesus to anyone for anything???

[RobbyS]

Jesus is offering Himself. The priest is simply acting as the servant of his master, as per the master’s instruction. “Do this...”

[Mad Dawg]

Man! Yeah, I get it. How dare we?
Here's how I think of it.

Everything we have we receive. We have nothing that is ours. "All things come of thee, O Lord, and of thine own have we given thee."

Like everything else we have in our essential poverty, Our Lord made a gift of Himself to us, an atoning gift. So, for the sake of atonement we offer Him back, for our sins and those of the whole world.

There's a kind of boldness in the offering, but, in my alleged mind, NOT to think Jesus was mine to offer would be to insult the gift and the giver.

And there's even a kind of divine (I hope) sneakiness in this. "When he ascends on high he takes captivity captive,"and it is because I am (again, I hope and trust) in his train as captives were paraded before their captor in the Roman "triumph", that I offer my Lord the Son to myLord the Father, trusting that I will be paraded before Jesus as he presents all to the Father.