The Patrick Madrid Show - What Happens at the Altar/Made in the Image of God (Special Podcast Highlight)
The Patrick Madrid Show
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🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Ari from LA asks Patrick two questions.
1.) What happens at the altar at Mass?
2.) What does it mean to be made in the image of God? How are we like God?
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| 0:00.0 | Here's an email that comes in from Ari in listening in Los Angeles on our 930 a.m. station. Ari says, questions to be answered, please. All right. Hopefully you can help me out with these two questions. Number one, what happens on the altar table during a Catholic Mass? And two, what does it mean that God created humanity in his image? How are we like God? Very good question. So what happens on the altar table during a Catholic |
| 0:22.5 | Mass? I personally wouldn't call it an altar table. It's an altar. Now, it is a table in a certain |
| 0:29.2 | sense because it was at the table in the upper room where our Lord celebrated the first mass. |
| 0:35.3 | We can rightly refer to it as a table, but we have to remember that it is |
| 0:39.0 | more than anything, it's an altar of sacrifice. So the altar in your parish is an altar of sacrifice |
| 0:44.6 | because it's there that the Lord as, and this answers your question, what happens there, |
| 0:50.3 | it is there on the altar that the priest, acting in the person of Christ, with the authority from Jesus, he does what Jesus did at the last supper by saying, this is my body and this is my blood. |
| 1:03.5 | So when he takes the bread and he says, this is my body, which has been given up for you, and he says, this is the chalice of my blood, which has been poured out for you |
| 1:11.3 | and for many. By saying these words of institution, along with everything that goes with this at mass, |
| 1:16.4 | what happens is a transformation, a miracle of transubstantiation. What that means is the substance or the |
| 1:25.4 | reality of the bread and the wine ceases to be present, and it is completely replaced with the substance or the reality of the bread and the wine ceases to be present, |
| 1:28.6 | and it is completely replaced with the substance or the reality of Jesus Christ, glorified, |
| 1:35.5 | resurrected, body, blood, soul, and divinity. That's a little formula that we Catholics tend to use, |
| 1:40.9 | because what it means is that Jesus is entirely present in what once was |
| 1:46.3 | bread and wine. |
| 1:47.2 | It still looks like bread and wine. |
| 1:48.6 | Still tastes like bread and wine. |
| 1:49.8 | Still has the molecular properties of bread and wine. |
| 1:52.2 | But now the reality is Christ himself. |
| 1:55.0 | That's what we mean by the real presence. |
| 1:56.7 | And that's what fundamentally is taking place on the altar during Mass. |
| 2:01.9 | Second question, what does it mean that God created humanity in his image? |
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