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To: gbcdoj

No, it is YOU who do not get what Ratzinger is saying. He denies an immolation takes place. There is no destruction of any Victim. The notion of sacrifice in the new Mass is not propitiatory in the sense given by Trent, which is not that the "value of sacrifice is from charity, and not from the destruction itself" as you state. This is not the meaning of Trent at all. Nor is it the meaning ascribed to the Cross by Scripture.

Ratzinger argues that modern man "can no longer imagine that human fault can wound God, and still less that it would require an expiation equal to that which constitutes the cross of Christ." But this redefinition of sacrifice flies in the face of traditional teaching--that the Mass is a re-presentation of Calvary, with Christ's immolation as the satisfaction given for our sins, the price, that is, which is paid to the Father vicariously by the Son. That is part of the deposit of faith.


387 posted on 09/23/2004 8:13:33 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio
Ratzinger argues that modern man "can no longer imagine that human fault can wound God, and still less that it would require an expiation equal to that which constitutes the cross of Christ."

* LOL Ratzinger isn't talking about the Mass. He is talking about "modern man."

What in the heck is wrong with you? You can't even understand simple english yet you rant and rave about the Pope and the Mass.

You should be embarassed.

390 posted on 09/24/2004 3:22:08 AM PDT by bornacatholic
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