The Holy Mass
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Real is the word in the Holy Mass
Names of the Holy Mass

the "Our Daily Bread" of Mat. 6:11, the in the "Our Father" prayer

 

53- "Let me solemnly assure you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
54- Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
55-For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink..." (John 6:53-55)
and 1 Cor. 11, "Without discerning",  here, Paul is really  very strong!, even more than Jesus

Eucharist - Mass Art Gallery

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The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass:

    In Old Testament, animals were offered as sacrifice to honor God...  after Christ, no more animals, the only sacrifice left is God Himself made flesh, Jesus Christ Himself in  The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

    In fact, the Eucharist is not a repetition of Calvary, but Calvary itself!, the greatest miracle of God, the miracle of time and space (Heb.7:27, 9:12,26-27)....  just as if you were present next to the Cross on the first Good Friday, with Virgin Mary and John!... the Holy Mass is the unbloody sacrifice of Calvary
    The Holy Mass is The abolition of all Levitical sacrifices, and the institution of an entirely new sacrifice.

       ... And it is not only Calvary in the Consecration... but also the Resurrection of Jesus in the Communion!...like in Psalm 22, that the first 22 verses are 13 prophecies fulfilled to the letter in Jesus at Calvary, but since verse 23, the crucified suddenly appears resurrected giving witness in the assembly with acts of praise, alleluia!

The Holy Eucharist, Vatican II tells us, is "the source and summit of the Christian life" (Lumen gentium, no. 11; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 1324). 

    St. Thomas Aquinas states: "The Eucharist is the mystery that sums up all the marvels wrought by God for our salvation".    

    Pope John Paul II said "Christ is the bread of salvation for man, wayfarer and pilgrim on earth. In the Eucharist mystery the Risen One has wished to continue to dwell in our midst, so that every human being can know his real name his true face and experience his boundless mercy"    

    Council of Trent, says: "Before leaving this world to go to the Father, Our Savior instituted the Sacrament in which He is as it were poured forth the riches of his love, allowing us to commemorate." (Council of Trent, Session XIII).

    The Holy Mass is the heart and life of the Church and of every Christian... "our daily bread" of Matt.6:11... Every Mass is worth as much as the sacrifice of our Lord's life, sufferings, death and resurrection.

    At the Holy Mass you kneel amidst a multitude of holy angels, who are present at the adorable Sacrifice with reverential awe.... Virgin Mary and all the Saints are there present with immense joy and reverence... the Father is there, and the Holy Spirit, exactly the One who transforms the bread and wine into the Body and Blood as proclaimed in the Epiclesis just before the Consecration.

Real is the word in the .Holy Mass.. really God!... the real presence of God Himself! Jesus Christ with His body, blood, soul and divinity... really real! 

    Shortly after Trent, Pope St. Pius V authorized the publication of the Roman Catechism which built on the Council of Trent and explained its teachings for the pastors of the Church:

    Regarding the Real Presence, the pastors were told to explain that "in this sacrament is contained not only the true Body of Christ-and that means everything that goes to make up a true body, such as bones, nerves, and so on-but also Christ whole and entire." Consequently the Eucharist contains Jesus Christ in the fullness of his divinity and the completeness of his humanity, and anything less is erroneous and heretic.

The Blessed Eucharist is the Sacrament: Baptism exists for it, all the others are enriched by it. The whole being is nourished by it. It is precisely food, which explains why it is the one sacrament meant to be received daily. Without it, one petition in the Our Father-"Give us this day our daily bread"-lacks the fullness of its meaning... god gives us every day "our daily daily bread", but we have to receive it "daily", "every day".

"Without discerning", 1Cor.11:27-30:

St. Paul, commenting Jn.6:53, says to the Christians of Corinth, "he who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks his own condemnation; and for this reason many of you are week, and ill, and some have died" (1Cor.11:29-30)... is strong St. Paul!: If you eat without "discerning the body", "you eat your own condemnation"!... and still goes own: "for this reason", because you eat the body without "discerning", many of you Christians are weak, and ill, and some have already died spiritually... (read it in full in 1Cor.11:27-30).

    Paul is very strong on this:

Paul means by "without discerning", eating the body and drinking the blood as if they were a "symbol"!... or as if they were worth less than a million dollars!... and because of it, not only you do no have life, as Jesus said in Jn.6:53, but you are eating "your own condemnation", "you eat and drink judgment against yourselves"... really strong is Paul!... and he is right!.

    Often we behave with Jesus as fools: As a person who receives at home the King or the President, and in five minutes leaves him alone in the living room and he goes to the yard to play ball... that's what we do with Jesus often, we receive him in the Eucharist, and in five minutes we forgot about him... that's receiving the body without discerning... that's foolishness!. St. Ignatius used to meditate for 3 hours after Communion, with tears of thankfulness and joy, and practically all the Saints used to enjoy and live the reality of Jesus in their hearts for 24 hours, after the next Communion!... lets do the same!... My adorable Jesus, I love you, let to live 24 hours a day well aware of You in me, like Virgin Mary: Always with Jesus, all for Jesus and to Jesus, every minute in Jesus, to help my neighbors to go Heaven. Thank you my Love. Amen.

Names of the Holy Mass:

The word Mass (Missa), from (Missa est, it is finished) said when the people are released from attendance

Sacrifice of the Holy Mass

Celebration of the Holy Mass

Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great (d. 604),

"breaking of bread" (fractio panis) in the early Church  (from Lk.24:35, in the way to Emmaus

The Lord's Supper" (coena dominica),

the "Sacrifice" (prosphora, oblatio),

"the Sacrament of the Altar" (since Augustine),

"liturgy" (Acts 13:2, leitourgountes); the Greek Church has employed

Our Daily Bread of Mat. 6:11, the "Our Father" prayer

"the gathering together" (synaxis, congregatio),

"the Mysteries",

Sacrifice of the Holy Mass

 

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