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Except what you call the mass is not a "thanksgiving sacrifice for a completed act.. it is the re-sacrifice of Christ over and over for the forgiveness of sins.."

Jesus cannot be re-sacrificed. He has overcome death and is free from death forever. The Mass is that self-same sacrifice, unique, numerically singular, unrepeatable. We are brought in contact with eternity, outside of time and space, and with "the Lamb that hath been slain from the foundation of the world…" (Rev 13:8).

Who told you that falsehood, that it is re-sacrificing Jesus over and over, I would like to know?

We are brought in contact with eternity, outside of time and space, and with "the Lamb that hath been slain from the foundation of the world…" (Rev 13:8).

Sorry, the verse does not say what you are implying...It does not say Jesus was slain from the foundation of the world...It was those whose names that are not written in the book of life...

Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

And how do we know that??? We reject Catholic tradition and compare scripture with scripture...

Rev 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

The sacrifice of Jesus is not an ongoing thing...It's over...You have absolutely nothing to support your idea of a continuing sacrifice...

We are not to celebrate the Crucifixion of Jesus...We are to hang our head in shame as we remember it...We are to celebrate Jesus' ascension...

>>We are brought in contact with eternity, outside of time and space<<

I wish Catholic could see how absolutely ridiculous that concept is. God is not forever creating the world. The world is not forever being flooded. In fact God said it would never happen again. Jesus is not forever walking this earth in the flesh. Nor is He forever being offered as a sacrifice. God did things in time that will never be repeated. God completed prophesies just as Jesus completed His sacrifice. No where in scripture does it say "continually offered". It says "once for all".

Hebrews 10:12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

Jesus said "it is finished". He didn't say "it will be offered again and again".