[Resettozero]

Now this is just shameful. You've likened Christ's Sacrifice on the cross - the sacrifice of the Lamb reenacted faithfully by His Church - to a pretence; to a game of dress-up.

But even as you pour scorn upon Christ's words at the Last Supper you are echoing part of His Passion. The soldiers literally played dress-up with Christ: they crowned Him with thorns and clothed Him in garments of derison.

You read things into my post that I did not post. YOU are the one who said that during mass you are actually transported to those places and indicating time travel. YOU said that it was REALLY HAPPENING AT THAT MOMENT during a mass. Sounded more sci-fi to me than it seemed spiritual.

You exaggerated and projected meanings onto me in your last paragraph that I neither said or have done. You are a false accuser on FR...who cannot spell worth a squat. So I will inform you that your post is error-filled with more than mere misspellings...a lot more that needs correct doctrine before you lash out at me again.

[agere_contra]

It's not time travel - not in the HG Wells sense anyway. There's no sightseeing or tourism. At Mass we remain solidly in our time and place - and yet we are present at the Passion.

The word for this is anamnesis. Christ's anamnesis is not simply a passive process of memory or memorialisation, but a process or act by which we actually enter into Christ's Passion. His Passion is truly made present for us.

I guess that you haven't come across this concept: however it needn't be alarming. At Mass Jesus gives His very self to us for our food. This is His one and only Sacrifice at which He is both High Priest and Victim.

After that: the idea that we are present at His Passion - while profoundly true - is almost an afterthought.

God is not bound by time and space: making us truly present and truly a part of the greatest moment in both history and eternity is nothing to Him.