David Venters

The Mass of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church conforms wholly to the Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture of the Teachings of Jesus Christ as transmitted through His Apostles. (1) Our Lord is not “Re-Sacrificed” at Mass. By way of example please see Part 1085 of the 1992 Catechism: “His Paschal mystery is a real event that occurred in our history, but it is unique: all other historical events happen once, and then they pass away, swallowed up in the past. the Paschal mystery of Christ, by contrast, cannot remain only in the past, because by his death he destroyed death, and all that Christ is - all that he did and suffered for all men - participates in the divine eternity, and so transcends all times while being made present in them all. the event of the Cross and Resurrection abides and draws everything toward life. . . . from the time of the Church of the Apostles . .” vatican.va/content/catechism… (2) Christians participate in the Eternal Pasch and Mystery of the Eucharist because that is precisely what Our Lord and His Apostles and their Successors command and exhort. (A) Please see John 6, Luke 22, Mark 14, Matthew 26, 1 Corinthians 10, 1 Corinthians 11, Luke 24, Acts of the Apostles 2, Acts of the Apostles 20, et al. (B) The Early Church and the Eucharist 1 Corinthians 11:23-24 "had given thanks" = "εὐχαριστήσας" = eucharistēsas. the word “Eucharist” = “εὐχαριστήσας" = “eucharistēsas” is most certainly Biblical. Here’s the English Text: 23 “[a]For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, 24 and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” The original Greek is. "had given thanks" = "εὐχαριστήσας" = eucharistēsas. Of course this isn’t the only reference to the Eucharist in Early Church Literature. The Didache, a (likely) First Century Catechism, makes reference to the Eucharist in Chapters 9, 10, and 14. Finally, Saint Ignatius of Antioch, in his Epistle to the Smyrnaeans, written sometime between the 90s and about 110 A.D., had this to say: “They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again. Those, therefore, who speak against this gift of God, incur death in the midst of their disputes.”