#12433 How Can the Mass Be Jesus’ Single Offering and Purgatory? - Karlo Broussard
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How can the Mass be Jesus’ single offering and Purgatory?” This episode explores the relationship between the Mass and sanctification, addressing why Catholics may still feel imperfect after attending. Additionally, we delve into the doctrine of purgatory, the meaning of ‘the heaven and the new earth,’ and the role of laypeople in distributing communion.
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Questions Covered:
- 04:05 – Hebrews 10:14 says that Jesus’s single offering on the cross perfects those for all time who are being sanctified. Yet, Catholics go to Mass and leave still imperfect. So, how can the Mass be Jesus’ single offering if Catholics aren’t perfected when they leave it?
- 13:52 – Can you help me better understand the doctrine of purgatory?
- 21:26 – What does ‘the heaven and the new earth’ mean?
- 29:04 – What are some practical applications of the teaching on contraception and the exceptions?
- 40:16 – Why do Catholics allow lay people to give out communion? Wouldn’t touching it make the host unholy?
- 51:25 – Are there other types of the mass other than the ordinary and the extraordinary?
- 03:30 – Is God three separate spirits or one spirit?
- 15:10 – How do you make the distinction of venial and mortal sin?
- 22:32 – How can Jesus have two wills?
- 39:59 – I have difficulty accepting that missing mass is a mortal sin. How do I better understand this?
- 50:44 – Act 22 says you don’t have to die to be a saint. Why do you Catholics only call dead people saints? How can the Catholic Church be the original Church?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and he's back. |
| 0:19.8 | The whole, we all felt it when he was out of the country, but he's back in the United States of America, our guest, Dr. Carlo Bussard, and which Catholic doctrine troubles you? This is one we do with Carlo from time to time. And it's always, because I like it a lot because anybody can call. It, like you, if you could be a non-Catholic and you go, it troubles me that Catholics, and here's one that troubles people a lot because anybody can call. Like you could be a non-Catholic, and you go, it troubles me that Catholics, and |
| 0:39.7 | here's one that troubles people a lot. |
| 0:41.5 | They don't share communion with non-Catholics. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay, or they won't ordain women, whatever. |
| 0:47.1 | But then there's ones that we're troubled by as Catholics, that maybe someone is |
| 0:52.3 | troubled by the teaching on one of the moral teachings |
| 0:56.7 | of the church, or one of the Marian doctrines, or all of the Marian doctrines. |
| 1:02.3 | You know, whether you're Catholic or not, if there's a Catholic doctrine that troubles you, |
| 1:06.1 | we'd love to talk with you about it today. |
| 1:07.5 | 8883187-884 is the number triple-8-387-884. And I know there's people that are just in the car in this first time they've ever listened to us, and they're like, there's a lot of Catholic doctors that trouble me. But you don't think to yourself, I'll call, because you don't think we really want to talk to you. But the fact is, we really do want to talk to you. And if you've got a Catholic doctrine that you want to get it off your chest that it troubles you, |
| 1:32.2 | or you would like to have some help just understanding it, that you're troubled by it that you don't |
| 1:37.1 | understand it. If you've got one, we want to talk with you. 888-3187-884. Dr. Carlo Bursard is a long-time apologist here at Catholic Answers, |
| 1:48.5 | author of a whole bunch of books, including, now I'm going to be wrong if I say this, but the most |
| 1:53.4 | recent one, the saints pray for you, no, the second most recent one, the saints pray for you, |
| 1:57.6 | and the most recent one, baptism now saves you. |
| 2:01.6 | Carla Roussard, welcome. |
| 2:03.6 | Sir Kellett. Thanks for having me, man. It's great to be on with you. |
| 2:07.6 | Everything feels better now that you're back in America. |
| 2:09.6 | Oh, well, thank you, man. That's very kind of you. |
| 2:12.6 | I'm glad to be back in America, I must admit. |
| 2:14.6 | Well, you were traveling. You were on pilgrimage with people in Italy, but it wasn't, it was moving. |
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