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Feb 15, 2024 · At its core, the Mass is a sacred liturgical celebration that commemorates and makes present the salvific sacrifice of Christ, offering believers the opportunity to partake in the divine mystery of redemption.
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- The Mass as Memorial and Sacred Banquet
- The Mass as An Application of The Merits of Christ
As far back as the Acts of the Apostles and Saint Paul's epistles, we find descriptions of the Christian community gathering to celebrate the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist. In the catacombs in Rome, the tombs of martyrs were used as altars for the celebration of the earliest forms of the Mass, making explicit the tie between the sacrifice of Christ ...
Very early on, the Church saw the Mass as a mystical reality in which the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross is renewed. Responding to Protestant sects who denied that the Eucharist is anything more than a memorial, the Council of Trent (1545-63) declared that "The same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross, is ...
This representation, as Fr. John Hardon notes in his Pocket Catholic Dictionary, "means that because Christ is really present in his humanity, in heaven, and on the altar, he is capable now as he was on Good Fridayof freely offering himself to the Father." This understanding of the Mass hinges on the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ...
While the Church teaches that the Mass is more than a memorial, she also acknowledges that the Mass is still a memorial as well as a sacrifice. The Mass is the Church's way of fulfilling Christ's command, at the Last Supper, to "Do this in remembrance of Me." As a memorial of the Last Supper, the Mass is also a sacred banquet, in which the faithful...
"Christ," Father Hardon writes, "won for the world all the graces it needs for salvation and sanctification." In other words, in His Sacrifice on the Cross, Christ reversed Adam's sin. In order for us to see the effects of that reversal, however, we must accept Christ's offer of salvation and grow in sanctification. Our participation in the Mass an...
The celebration of the Mass, also known as the Eucharist, is the heart of Christian worship. Rooted in centuries of tradition, it is a profound communal experience embodying the faith, doctrines, and communal bonds of Christians across the globe.
Christ's action. The Holy Mass is the holiest thing we have here on earth. Why? Because it is the action of Christ. The main thing in the Mass is not what is read from the Holy Scriptures, even though this is the word of God and should be listened to as such.
The Holy Mass could be described as the ritual celebration of what Jesus fulfilled only once in history: The Last Supper on Holy Thursday, His Death on Good Friday and His Resurrection on Easter Sunday. The celebration of the Mass can be divided into four parts: Gathering rites; Liturgy of the Word of God; Liturgy of the Eucharist or Meal sharing
Dec 16, 2022 · As we remember with the words, “We proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your resurrection until you come again,” we celebrate our share in Christ’s sacrifice at Calvary and the reality of that sacrifice present in the Eucharist we celebrate today.
The Mass is the renewal and perpetuation of the sacrifice of the cross in the sense that it offers [Jesus] anew to God . . . and thus commemorates the sacrifice of the cross, reenacts it symbolically and mystically, and applies the fruits of Christ’s death upon the cross to individual human souls.
