{"id":6941,"date":"2023-06-23T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=6941"},"modified":"2023-06-23T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:19:05","slug":"holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2023\/06\/23\/holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Sacrifice of the Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier this month the Church at large celebrated the Solemnity of Corpus Christi Year A. This Sunday is the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time. However, the Solemn Mass we use at the close of this month to mark 125 Years of Service to God\u2019s people at our Parish is that of the Body and Blood of Christ,  Corpus Christi Year B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday A concentrated on the meaning of \u2018Bread from Heaven,\u2019 the Host\u2014that it is truly the Body of Christ offered for our Salvation. This Sunday B concentrates on the \u2018cup that we drink,\u2019 that it is the true Blood of Christ offered in sacrifice. Thus, in the Old Testament reading from Deuteronomy, Moses offered sacrifices to God and the blood was kept in basins to be sprinkled on the mountain of God and on the people to seal their covenant with God. They had proclaimed,  \u201cWhatever he asks of us that we will do.\u201d Jesus consecrated the wine at the Last Supper and called it his blood of \u201cthe new and everlasting covenant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter to the Hebrews refers to the supreme value of the Blood of Christ offered in sacrifice. If the blood of animals was once used to sanctify defiled human beings in an ancient era, \u201cHow much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God?\u201d (Heb 9:11-15). At each Mass Jesus offers Himself in prayer as a repeated offering to the Father for our sake. Our prayer is to be like Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark\u2019s Gospel joins the Last Supper to the sacrifice of the Passover Lamb whose blood was the great sign of deliverance. That evening they all went to the Upper Room where Jesus, oddly, had told them to prepare the Passover meal. Mark described the betrayal. Then while they were eating, rapidly he told of Jesus blessing the bread and saying, \u201cTake it. It is my body.\u201d Giving thanks over the chalice, He said, \u201cThis is my blood of the covenant which will be shed for many\u201d The first Mass was over. Our Holy Sacrifice of the Mass continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and I will call upon the name of the LORD.      <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                        Ps 116 :17<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB Earlier this month the Church at large celebrated the Solemnity of Corpus Christi Year A. This Sunday is the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time. However, the Solemn Mass we use at the close of this month to mark 125 Years of Service to God\u2019s people at our Parish is that of the Body and Blood of Christ,  Corpus Christi Year … Continuar leyendo Holy Sacrifice of the Mass<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":6060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20310044],"tags":[35890],"class_list":["post-6941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-province-news","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/intouch-2023-1.png?fit=904%2C1104&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-1NX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6960,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions\/6960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}