Why is the Mass a Sacrifice?
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Catholics talk about "The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass." But how was the Mass like those Biblical sacrifices of old - violent rituals with animals being cut up, set on fire and their blood being poured out on altars? The Mass I attended each week didn't look like that!
But if we can understand Jesus' words at the Last Supper the way a first century Jew would, we'll come to see that Jesus didn't just give us his Body and Blood when he instituted the Eucharist. He gave us a way to encounter and enter into his sacrificial offering of himself on Calvary. Indeed, his sacrifice on the Cross is made present in every Mass.
If we want to grow in sacrificial love, we want to participate more fully in the sacrifice of the Mass where we encounter sacrificial love Himself transforming our hard hearts a with his perfect love.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:19.1 | We as Catholics are very familiar with those sacred words Jesus spoke at the last supper. This is my body. This is my |
| 0:26.3 | blood. We hear these words all the time in the mass. But what if we had never heard those words |
| 0:32.0 | before? What if we were never heard those words before? |
| 0:32.5 | What if we were one of the 12 apostles |
| 0:34.7 | gathered at the last supper |
| 0:36.7 | and we heard Jesus say those things for the very first time? |
| 0:40.3 | What would those words have meant to us? That's what I want to do. I want to take us back into a time machine. I want to take us back to that first mass, that first Eucharist there at the last supper in Jerusalem and put ourselves in the shoes of Peter and James and John and consider what |
| 0:55.9 | those very important words would have meant to us if we were Jews in the first century |
| 1:00.4 | because they're going to tell us so much about our belief and devotion to |
| 1:04.0 | the Eucharist and to the mass and this is going to be the first of a |
| 1:07.3 | mini three-part series I'm going to be doing all on the Eucharist and it's going to be |
| 1:11.4 | focused on the three main aspects of the Eucharist and it's going to be focused on the three main aspects of the |
| 1:14.8 | Eucharist. Do you know what those are? Do you know the three main aspects of the |
| 1:19.4 | Eucharist? Every Catholic should know this. This is what was passed on through our tradition throughout the centuries. |
| 1:25.2 | And many times today, we've lost sight of these three things. Do you know about the mass as sacrifice? |
| 1:31.8 | Do you know about the Eucharist as real presence? And thirdly, do you |
| 1:35.4 | know about the Eucharist as Holy Communion? These are the three things I'm going to |
| 1:39.2 | be looking at over the next three episodes and in today's episode I'm going to focus on that first |
| 1:43.7 | point the mass as sacrifice and I want to tell you a story I remember when I was a kid |
| 1:48.5 | growing up I went to a Catholic school in the suburbs of Chicago and I remember hearing these announcements about the |
| 1:54.9 | holy sacrifice of the mass and I might hear announcement on the loudspeaker at |
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