English doesn't really have a word for it - the theological word is 'Anamnesis'.
The important point is that we do not repeat Christ's sacrifice - rather, we enter into or re-encounter Christ's single sacrifice.
Perhaps it will help to think of it this way: during the Mass the time and space that separates us from The Last Supper, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection is no more. We are truly present at Christ's gift of Himself.
I personally think the Church went off-track when it tried to say more than that the bread and wine were “blessed” or “consecrated” or even “divinized,” and that the literal “body and blood” language creates more problems than it solves. “This is my body” and “this is my blood” seem to have related but differing symbolic meanings, “body” perhaps representing his divine life and “blood” his sacrificial act. After all, blood is a constituent of the body, not something separate from it.
Excellent explanation.
Perfect and totally amazing tagline, BTW.
For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 1:11
Great.way to think of the Mass.
English doesn't really have a word for it - the theological word is 'Anamnesis'.
If English doesn't have a word for it, the reality of it then can't exist...Who invented the word Anamnesis??? Do the Germans have a word for it??? The Russians???
The word for made present is 'is'...Or 'am'...'Are'...Re-present isn't really a word...A concept was invented with the idea of Jesus never climbing down off the cross and a word was invented for it...
The sun is shining and it always has since it was created...The sun does not get re-presented everytime you look at it...
And then, what does eating the wafer have to do with Jesus on the Cross anyway??? Are you killing Jesus when you bite into the wafer???