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The Holy Eucharist
5. What is the Holy Mass?
What is the Holy Mass?
The Holy Mass is
the Eucharis
t consider
ed as Sacrifice
.
What is a Sacrifice?
The destruction of a thing to show that God is the Lord, the
owner of all things.
In a sacrifice, a priest offers God a thing.
The priest offers the
sacrifice in our name, and as a
sign of submission to
God, of thanksgiving, of repentance
for our sins, and of asking
for help.
The sacrifice of the lamb
God wanted that a lamb
be sacrificed yearly in order to
celebrate the Passover Feast as a
remembrance of freedom
from Egypt.
The Jewish Passover
The Jewish people
celebrated yearly
their freedom
from slavery in Egypt in
the Paschal Supper.
The Last Supper of Jesus
Jessus wanted to spend His
Last Supper with the Apostles,
before leaving
this world to join His Father in HEaven.
Jesus institutes the Eucharist
In this Supper, Jeus explains that
He is the Lamb of God who will be
sacrificed for all of us in order to be freed from
sin. The wine is His Blood shed for us.
The Holy Mass is a sacrifice
• In ancient times, it was a priest who offered sacrifices
• Jesus is the priest who offers His sacrifice
• In the Old Testament, a lamb was the victim offered to God.
• In the Holy Mass, Jesus is the Victim (the one offered to God)
The bloody Sacrifice of the Cross is the same sactrifice
(unbloody) that is performed in the Holy Mass
It replaces and eliminates all the sacrifices offered in the Old Testament, before the
coming of the Lord.
The Sacririfce of the Cross is the basic and central sacrifice of our Christian
religion.
When we participate at Holy Mass, we receive the fruit of
the Lord’s Passion.
JEsus does not die agin when Mass is celebrated. Neither
does He suffer again all the
sufferings of His Passion. His
Passion and Death are made present here and now, but
they are not repeated.
In the Mass, Jesus’ Resurrection is made also
made present
This is why we say in the Holy Mass:
Christ has died, Christ is risen,
Christ will come again.
Christ has died means that the Mass is the memorial of the Lord’s Death on the Cross.
Christ is Risen means that the Risen Jesus is the one who celebrates the Holy Mass
Christ will come again means that we wait for the Lord’s
second Coming at the end of time.
Meanwhile, Jesus is present in the celebration of the Holy Mass until the end of time.
The end