There's just one more example of the Catholic Church usurping for power. We aren't adopted into God's family "through participation with the church". We are adopted as a child of God by faith in Christ. It's through that adoption that we become part of the ekklesia of Christ.
>>In this offering, we offer the only acceptable sacrifice, participation in the once-for-all sacrifice of Christ.<<
There now remains no more "offering". Christ offered "once for all" not to be repeated or "participated in". The mass is nothing more than a denial if the "once for all" sufficiency of the sacrifice of Christ.
Please tell me how this process of adoption works.
The mass is nothing more than a denial if the "once for all" sufficiency of the sacrifice of Christ.
So says Pope CynicalBear I. After all, it must be so just because you say it is so.