Tuesday

 

The Mass is a Sacrifice

The Sacrifice of Calvary and the Sacrifice of the Mass are ONE AND THE SAME!

Only made present to us differently. One Historically and the other Sacramentally.

At the Last Supper, before He died on the cross, Jesus made the Sacrifice of Calvary present to His Disciples Sacramentally as he “Gave them His Body” in the Bread and “Poured out His Blood” in the Cup of the Covenant. The Same Body He would give on Calvary and the Same Blood He would shed.

At every Mass, The altar is the cross on which the Body of Christ is laid and His blood is poured out for the forgiveness of sins.

At every Mass, we are Sacramentally standing at the SAME Cross, sharing in the SAME Sacrifice; the SAME Blood is being poured over us and we are experiencing our own personal Redemption and Salvation.