And this post just shows you don't know what the Catholic Church teaches. There is that 're-sacrifice of Christ at every mass' fiction again.
Oh he knows. So do I.
Canon III. If any one saith, that the sacrifice of the mass is only a sacrifice of praise and of thanksgiving; or, that it is a bare commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the cross, but not a propitiatory sacrifice; or, that it profits him only who receives; and that it ought not to be offered for the living and the dead for sins, pains, satisfactions, and other necessities: let him be anathema.
The Eucharist was instituted by our Lord for two great purposes, to be the celestial food for our soul, preserving and supporting spiritual life, and to give to the Church a perpetual sacrifice, by which sin may be expiated, and our heavenly Father, whom our crimes have often greviously offended, may be turned from wrath to mercy, from the severity of just vengeanceto the exercise of benignant clemency.
Vatican II
As often as the sacrifice of the cross in which “Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed” (1 Cor. 5:7) is celebrated on an altar, the work of our redemption is carried on.
At the Last Supper, on the night when He was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic Sacrifice of His Body and Blood. He did this in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the Cross throughout the centuries until He should come again, and so to intrust to His beloved spouse, the Church, a memorial of His death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a paschal banquet in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us (The Documents of Vatican II (Chicago: Follett, 1966), Walter M. Abbott, S.J., General Editor, pp. 16, 418, 535, 140-141, 542, 154.)
The Code of Canon Law
Canon 897. The eucharistic Sacrifice, the memorial of the death and resurrection of the Lord, in which the Sacrifice of the cross is forever perpetuated, is the summit and the source of all worship and christian life.
The Question and Answer Catholic Catechism
1269. How does the Mass re-present Calvary?
The Mass re-presents Calvary by continuing Christ’s sacrifice of himself to his heavenly Father. In the Mass, no less than on Calvary, Jesus really offers his life to his heavenly Father.
What is stated as official Roman Catholic doctrine above is most blasphemous to those who know their Bibles, and that is why you get such a strong reaction. What that says to us in very plain english is that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is not complete.
We say with the Holy Scripture that Christ died, or was sacrificed, once for all. "For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God." Romans 6:10
There does not exist in Holy Scripture the idea of a perpetual and living sacrifice of Christ in the mass as taught by the papacy. What's more is nowhere in Scripture does it teach that the Eucharisitc celebration is a propitiation of sins!
"And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world." 1 John 2:2
It is Jesus Christ Himself that is the propitation for our sins, not the Eucharist. Nor can the Eucharist be an offering of Christ again in true sacrifice.
Hebrews 9
24For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
These passages are comparing the once sacrifice of Christ to the often sacrifices of the animals under the Old Covenant. But look at what it is actually telling. Not often offerred, but once offered.
But the mass that happens as often as it does happen, is proclaiming that it is offering the once sacrifice of Christ often!
"By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God" Heb 10:10-12
He offered one sacrifice for sins for ever. While I hear the papists saying they are not re-sacrificing Christ, but offering that same sacrifice over and over again, it makes no difference, because the Apostolic Tradition preserved in the Holy Scirptures says this offering was made once.
