Monday, January 28, 2013

Re-presentation

Today's first reading instructs us that:
Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf. Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own; if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages to take away sin by his sacrifice. Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment, so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.
-- Hebrews 9:24-28

Again, we see that the Eucharistic Sacrifice of the Mass is a re-presentation of Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross. Not a do-over, but a participation across time.

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