This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. The Mass is the greatest way to thank God to express our gratitude

to Him. Now there were all kinds of sacrifices in the Old Testament, peace offerings,

guilt offerings, sin offerings, but the most important Old Testament sacrifice was the Todah sacrifice, not Tada,

which meant the sacrifice of Thanksgiving.

In fact, Todah is the word in Hebrew for thank you.

Cardinal Ratzinger in his book, The of Faith says it is critical to understand the

toda sacrifice in order to understand the mass. The toda sacrifice was an ancient Hebrew Thanksgiving sacrifice and meal.

This sacrifice presupposed a specific situation. If a man is saved from death, from fatal illness, or from those who

seek his life, he celebrates this divine deliverance by offering a sacrifice of Thanksgiving which marks a new start, a new existence to his life.

So if you experienced this situation, you would gather your family and friends for a special meal. A lamb would be sacrificed in the temple

and the same time bread would be consecrated for the meal.

Then the person whose life was saved would take a cup of wine and give thanks,

explaining how the Lord saved him and had given him a new start and a new life and then they would eat the meal.

So the key elements of a Todah sacrifice were a lamb that was sacrificed, Psalms of

Thanksgiving, wine, and consecrated bread. The bread of to-da or Thanksgiving.

Our Father who art in heaven,

hallow it would be your name.

By kingdom come by will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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