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Thing that is being repeated is the celebration of Mass, not the Crucifixion

Source:  http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/are-we-re-crucifying-jesus-in-the-mass/


The Masses (the first one and contemporary ones) make present the sacrifice of the Cross in a special sense.
  1.  According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (quoting the Council of Trent):  1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice:  [1] The victim is one and the same:   [2] the same [Priest] now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross;   [3] only the manner of offering is different.
  2.  in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner."
  3.  Christ offered himself on the Cross by the shedding of his blood (i.e., in a bloody manner) but today he offers himself without shedding his blood (i.e., in an unbloody manner).
  4.  the Mass, celebrated by the priest representing the person of Christ by virtue of the power received through the Sacrament of Orders, and offered by him in the name of Christ and the members of His Mystical Body, is the sacrifice of Calvary rendered sacramentally present on our altars.
  5.  the bread and wine consecrated by the Lord at the Last Supper were changed into His body and His blood which were to be offered for us on the cross, likewise the bread and wine consecrated by the priest [today ]are changed into the body and blood of Christ enthroned gloriously in heaven [CPG 24].
  6.  Jesus says "Do this," the "this" he is referring to is the act of:  ·      Taking bread  ·      Giving thanks/blessing it (the word here in Greek is eucharistesas–"gave thanks"–from which we get "Eucharist")  ·      Distributing it  In other words, he told them to say Mass.
  7.  in fulfilling Jesus’ command to "Do this" what the Catholic priests are doing is to saying Mass, just as Jesus did, not nailing him to a Cross.
  8.  the thing that is being repeated is the celebration of Mass, not the Crucifixion.
  9.  If Jesus didn’t have a problem with having the Last Supper pre-presenting what he would do on the Cross–and if he told us to keep doing it after the Crucifixion–then we should have no problem with the Mass re-presenting the sacrifice of the Cross
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