Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Capital Sins and Capital Virtues Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 89 07:14:23 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article our moderator writes: >By the way, it's fairly important not to use the term priest in this >context for a Protestant minister. Priest implies that a sacrifice is >being done, and Protestants generally (except maybe high church >Anglicans?) do not believe they are sacrificing Christ again. This may be a problem of misinterpreting your wording, but Catholics don't believe that they are sacrificing Christ again. Rather, the Mass is a reenactment of the SAME sacrifice as Calvary. I'm also uneasy with the implication above that the "priest" is somehow sacrificing Christ. That's not really correct, although I am too jetlagged from the change to standard time to attempt a clarification of that right now. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu [I'd be interested in the distinction. I understand that the sacrifice is the same one as Calvary. But I had always understood that the mass is a sacrifice. --clh]