Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!sun-barr!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: johnw@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Importance of sacrifice Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 90 19:21:28 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jhpb@granjon.garage.att.com writes: > >The Protestant Reformers felt unable to reconcile the once-for-all >nature of the Sacrifice of Calvary with a Mass repeated again and again >through time. The principal liturgical change of the Reformers was thus >the removal of the sacrificial language from the Mass. > > >Joe Buehler This was precisely my reason for leaving the Catholic Church. All the other "Catholic vs. Protestant" issues are peripheral. How do you reconcile the once-for-all sacrifice of Calvary with the Mass repeated again and again? When Paul (or whoever it was who wrote Hebrews) said that one sacrifice was enough, he was not assuming his readers would think along the lines of "with God there is no time; therefore, all the Masses performed in time are a-temporally connected with the One Calvary Sacrifice, and so we do have only one sacrifice after all." Paul was talking about temporal stuff, and was referring to the fact that Christ's sacrifice was the end of all the Jewish sacrifices, which happened in time.