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To: Old Yeller
"If that actually is the body and blood of Christ through transubstantiation (which it isn’t), why do Roman Catholics feel they need to re-sacrifice Christ thousands of times every day at each mass conducted around the world?"

The Catholic Church does not teach that. It teaches that the Holy sacrifice of the mass is the re-presentation of the same sacrifice that Jesus offered on Calvary. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

CCC 1365 Because it is the memorial of Christ's Passover, the Eucharist is also a sacrifice. The sacrificial character of the Eucharist is manifested in the very words of institution: "This is my body which is given for you" and "This cup which is poured out for you is the New Covenant in my blood." [Lk 22:19-20] In the Eucharist Christ gives us the very body which he gave up for us on the cross, the very blood which he "poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins." [Mt 26:28]

CCC 1366 The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit:

[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper "on the night when he was betrayed," [he wanted] to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice (as the nature of man demands) by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit. [1 Cor 11:23; Heb 7:24, 27]

CCC 1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: "The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different." "And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner. . . this sacrifice is truly propitiatory." [Heb 9:14,27]

100 posted on 02/13/2021 10:25:08 AM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: fidelis
But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper

But yours was...

CCC 1366 The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit:

So you've still Jesus hanging on the Cross...His blood is still spilling out...

Bible says Jesus came down off the Cross, the sacrifice of blood was fulfilled, the priesthood was eliminated and he went home to be with his Father...You won't let him get off the Cross...

174 posted on 02/14/2021 1:49:44 PM PST by Iscool
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