True Sacrifice: What We Do in the Mass | Prof. Bruce Marshall

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🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Prof. Marshall's handout can be found here: tinyurl.com/bdh86t7v This lecture was given on January 14, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the intellectual retreat entitled, "The Mystery of the Liturgy." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Prof. Bruce Marshall is the Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine at Southern Methodist University. He holds a masters from Yale Divinity School and a doctorate from Yale University. His teaching interests include medieval and reformation theology and systematic theology. His research interests include doctrine of the Trinity, christology, philosophical issues in theology, sacramental theology, and Judaism and Christian theology.

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0:51.2	So in the first talk I gave this morning, we concentrated on what God does for us in the
0:59.0	liturgy, or we looked at the mass from the angle of it being God's work and God's self-gift
1:04.3	to us. And so in the second talk, what I want to do is just look at it from the contrasting or complementary,
1:15.6	it would be a better way to put it.
1:17.6	The complementary angle of the mass is what we do for God.
1:21.6	And what we do for God or, well, let's just say for God in the Mass.
1:29.3	Most basically, in our worship, is offered to God a sacrifice pleasing to him, make an offering pleasing to him.
1:39.4	So what I want to think about in this talk is, what is this offering that we make to God? Why is it pleasing to him?
1:48.5	And how exactly is it that we make this offering in the Mass? In other words, how is it that the
1:56.4	mass is a sacrifice? Now, today, most Catholics who practice to faith look upon the mass as the center of their
2:05.2	religious and spiritual lives.
2:08.5	We think of the mass in many ways and rightly find all sorts of riches and significance
2:16.2	in the mass that we can talk about.
2:23.2	That the Mass is a sacrifice that we offer to God for the salvation of the world
2:31.5	is, I think, for many Catholics today, not the first thing that comes to mind when we think
2:37.3	about the Mass.
2:41.8	I remember talking to a friend, a theologian friend, a priest now retired in his 80s, who grew
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