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To: Campion
"No, it's a lie."

I'm not sure if you mean that the poster's characterization of the Catholic belief is a lie, or that the belief itself is a lie. I was raised a Catholic in the 50s and 60s, and the phrase "the holy sacrifice of the Mass" was common, so - IN SOME SENSE - the Church believes that the sacrifice of Jesus is recreated during the Mass.
4 posted on 08/05/2013 10:47:32 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

“...the Church believes that the sacrifice of Jesus is recreated during the Mass.”

At the last supper Jesus uses the bread and wine to represent his body and blood. He then tells us to, “Do this in memory of me.” That is what the Church is celebrating.


6 posted on 08/05/2013 10:54:43 AM PDT by Owl558 (Those who remember George Santayana are doomed to repeat him)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Not “recreated” and not “resacrificed,” but “re-presented”; made present (to us) again, not done over again. Huge difference.


10 posted on 08/05/2013 11:00:30 AM PDT by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: Steve_Seattle
I believe it would be closer to say that Christ's sacrifice is 'made present'.

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.

11 posted on 08/05/2013 11:01:06 AM PDT by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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To: Steve_Seattle; Campion
the Church believes that the sacrifice of Jesus is recreated during the Mass.

The sacrifice is not re-created, it is the exact same sacrifice Re-presented

Catholics believe the verse; Rom 6:10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.

Means that he dies once for all time.

87 posted on 08/05/2013 5:34:21 PM PDT by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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