[ealgeone]

That's why, in the Mass, we JOIN WITH CHRIST in offering to the Father the death of Jesus on the cross. The sacrifice is NOT REPEATED, but it is made present to us so that we can participate in it.

Y'all parse words like a Clinton.

It's a sacrifice but it's not a sacrifice.

Why do you have to keep offering over and over what has already been done?

[Arthur McGowan]

Because NEW PEOPLE KEEP BEING BORN who WEREN’T IN JERUSALEM 2000 years ago. People who didn’t get to meet Jesus in person. Through the sacraments instituted by Jesus, he makes himself present in the present, and until the end of time.

You object to our celebrating the Mass repeatedly.

When you read the Passion account in one of the gospels, does Jesus die once again each time. If you read a gospel ten times, does Jesus die ten times?

Of course not. Reading the gospel makes the death of Jesus present TO YOU in a new way.

If your objection to the celebration of Mass is valid, then you would have to condemn the reading of the gospels, for the same reason: Jesus cannot die again and again. Therefore it is pointless to read about his death again and again.