frozencell,
"To know that you have been so horribly mislead is very saddening to me. No Catholic re-crucifies Christ any Sunday ever."
I'm afraid they do. They consider it a very real, literal, sacrifice indeed, with the only concession being that it is "without blood"
Why do you think they call it the "sacrifice" of the mass?
Here are 2 exerpts from the Catholic Encyclopedia to prove the point...(emphasis mine)
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I. THE EXISTENCE OF THE MASS
Before dealing with the proofs of revelation afforded by the Bible and tradition, certain preliminary points must first be decided. Of these the most important is that
the Church intends the Mass to be regarded as a "true and proper sacrifice", and will not tolerate the idea that the sacrifice is identical with Holy Communion.
That is the sense of a clause from the Council of Trent(Sess. XXII, can. 1): "If any one saith that in the Mass
a true and proper sacrifice is not offered to God; or, that
to be offered is nothing else but that
Christ is given us to eat; let him be anathema (Denzinger, "Enchir.", 10th ed. 1908, n. 948)....If the Mass is to be a
true sacrifice in the
literal sense, it must realize the philosophical conception of sacrifice. Thus the last preliminary question arises: What is a sacrifice in the proper sense of the term?
Without attempting to state and establish a comprehensive theory of sacrifice, it will suffice to show that, according to the comparative history of religions,
four things are necessary to a sacrifice:
a
sacrificial gift (res oblata),
a
sacrificing minister (minister legitimus),
a
sacrificial action (actio sacrificica), and
a
sacrificial end or object (finis sacrificii).
In
contrast with sacrifices in the
figurative or less proper sense, the sacrificial gift must
exist in physical substance, and must be
really or virtually destroyed (animals slain, libations poured out, other things rendered unfit for ordinary uses), or at least
really transformed, at a
fixed place of sacrifice (ara,
altar), and
offered up to God. As regards the person offering, it is not permitted that any and every individual should offer sacrifice on his own account.
In the revealed religion, as in nearly all heathen religions, only a
qualified person(usually called
priest, sacerdos, lereus), who has been given the power by commission or vocation, may
offer up sacrifice in the name of the community. After Moses.
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What we are talking about here is nothing less than an idolatrous abomination in direct contradiction to Gods truth found in Hebrews, and other places...that Christs sacrifice was a
once for all time
sacrifice.
"He entered the most Holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption."
"not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enteres the most holy place every year with the blood of another, He then would have to suffer often since the foundation of the world. But now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself"
"By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."
"For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified"
Here is the link...
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10006a.htm
God bless,
Mike