“But with the Protestanized version we are now taught to believe that the Crucifixion and death of Our Dear Lord Jesus Christ was not enough––but that it was necessary for Jesus to be resurrected as well.”
“Protestantized” does not work here as Scripture makes it clear Resurrection was essential, so Jesus would “ever live” to make intercession for us. He is a “priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek”. He went into the Most Holy Place and into Heaven itself. Only a resurrected Jesus could do that.
Of course, this destroys any idea of continuing a sacrifice such as the Mass represents (assuming I understand it correctly) since Jesus died ONCE FOR ALL. It is finished. Levitical priesthood over. No other priesthood needed now as we have been personally granted boldness and access.
Many do not want it.
I understand your point. but you have to understand that my comment, respectfully, was intended to point out the truth to Catholics, not Protestants.
But just so we are clear, when I say that this was the “Protestantization” of the Mass, I intended that to mean that where the Tridentine Mass has always been clearly understood (up until Vatican II) as a re-creation of the Sacrifice on the Cross (the resurrection was never mentioned), the Protestant version of the Mass (Thomas Cranmer) rejected the sacrificial aspect of the Mass. In order to placate this thinking, the Paul VI added in the part about the resurrection, and hence, create anew the so-called Pascal Mystery. Now we have a “Eucharistic Celebration”.
Unquestionably Jesus must “ever live”, but to complete your argument (which I respectfully disagree), you might as well throw in the Ascension as well, since that is where He went. The Catholic Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was not established to satisfy the teaching of Luther, Cranmer or any other Protestant; it was established to fulfill what Jesus asked us to do, namely “Do This in Remembrance of Me”. He was speaking about the Bloody Sacrifice that He was about to endure, and He was asking us to witness the unbloodied re-creation of that Sacrifice.