#12692 How Is the Mass a Sacrifice? Intinction and Etiquette - Tom Nash

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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“How is the Mass a sacrifice if nothing seems to be sacrificed?” This question opens a discussion on the nature of the Mass, alongside inquiries about the practice of intinction in the U.S. and the reasons behind the removal of kneelers in some churches. Additional topics include the relationship between the Mass and Hebrews 10:14, and proper etiquette before Mass.

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Questions Covered:

01:40 – How is the Mass a Sacrifice if nothing seems to be sacrificed?
12:37 – How common is intinction practiced in the US?
15:11 – I’m not Catholic. Why did the Church take out kneelers?
23:26 – How does the Mass not contradict Hebrews 10:14?
33:03 – Is it licit to say, “my Lord and God” during the consecration?
41:19 – Is there proper etiquette for silence prior to mass?
44:58 – I am a protestant and I would like to understand the order of the mass. Could you help me make it understandable?
50:25 – When did priests start wearing vestments?
52:03 – Why do the priests stay away from telling people what they need to do at home during the homily?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello, welcome back to Catholic Answers Live.
0:33.9	I am Sykelet, your host, my friend Tom Nash is here.
0:36.3	I told you he was coming, and we always have a good time. I feel like we always have a good time with Thomas here, but it's always best when Tom talks about the Mass. So that's what we, that's my favorite thing to do with Tom. That's what you can do. You can call and ask any question you've got. Look, if you believe in the mass if you don't believe in the mass. If you're Catholic, if you're not a Catholic, you are welcome. 8883187884 is the number. Ask any question you've got about the Catholic Mass. 8883187-884. Tom Nash, apologist, writer. He wrote the book on the Rosary here, the 20 Answers Rosary book here. He's written a whole
1:11.5	bunch of other things. He's been a theologian in Catholic media for 71, 72 years. I'm not sure.
1:17.7	Hi, Tom Nash.
1:20.0	You're dating me, so to speak. I am not dating you. I am married. Someone has to.
1:27.4	We don't know about does the calendar come back to that date?
1:30.3	I get no respect. Well, welcome, Tom, Nash. I'll tell you what, I'm going to start you off with the opening question, and then I'll let people call with their questions about the mass, okay? Fair enough. 888-318-18-7-884. I actually, until I kind of got associated a little bit with apologetics, I didn't, you know, most of my life I wasn't involved with apologetics. I didn't know how, what a controversy there is about the mass being a sacrifice between Catholics and Protestants. It's just, I just never thought about it. So I'm going to ask this maybe, maybe a little bit from a Protestant perspective.
2:02.9	I don't know, but at least from a controversial perspective, give you a controversy to chew into.
2:07.8	All right.
2:08.5	So how is the...
2:09.0	No pun intended, Eucharist.
2:10.3	Oh, that you're right.
2:11.5	You're right.
2:11.5	It wasn't unintended.
2:12.7	Uh-huh.
2:14.2	How was the mass a sacrifice if nothing seems to be sacrificed?
2:20.5	I would approach that from a couple of perspectives.
2:24.0	First of all, something need not visibly die to be a sacrifice.
2:29.1	That is, to have an offering or sacrifice, it can be something as simple as bread and wine.
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