DeepSummary
The podcast episode discusses the concept of sacrifice, its importance in Christianity, and how the Catholic Mass is considered a sacrifice. Father Gregory Pine explains that a sacrifice involves an offering that undergoes a change, with the purpose of cultivating communion with God. He describes Christ's crucifixion as the ultimate sacrifice, which was pleasing to God as a demonstration of His love.
Pine explains that the Mass is a representation and application of Christ's sacrifice, allowing believers to participate in and benefit from it throughout their lives. He argues that the Mass is the same sacrifice as Christ's, with Christ as both the priest and the victim, offered to the same God and for the same people.
The episode also touches on the distinction between latria (the worship due to God alone, such as sacrifice) and dulia (veneration of saints), and how the Mass helps maintain this distinction. Pine suggests that the loss of the Mass as a concrete expression of latria contributed to Protestant discomfort with the cult of saints.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Sacrifice involves an offering that undergoes a change, with the purpose of cultivating communion with God.
- Christ's crucifixion was the ultimate sacrifice, demonstrating God's love for humanity.
- The Catholic Mass is a representation and application of Christ's sacrifice, allowing believers to continually participate in and benefit from it.
- The Mass is considered the same sacrifice as Christ's, with Christ as both the priest and the victim, offered to the same God and for the same people.
- The Mass helps maintain the distinction between latria (worship due to God alone, such as sacrifice) and dulia (veneration of saints).
- The loss of the Mass as a concrete expression of latria contributed to Protestant discomfort with the cult of saints.
- Sacrifice is an act of religion, a form of justice and submission owed to God as our Creator and end.
- The Mass facilitates the encounter between God and humanity, with the priest offering prayers and sacrifices and dispensing divine gifts.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “When we celebrate the mass as a sacrifice, what we are effectively doing is commemorating and representing, as it were, on the one hand, and then applying or dispensing, as it were, on the other hand.“ by Father Gregory Pine
- “A sacrifice is an offering in which the victim or the host is changed in some way, shape, or form.“ by Father Gregory Pine
- “So sacrifice is informed by the spirit, and Christ gives everything, right to show how much God loves us.“ by Father Gregory Pine
- “And that the mass is the most concrete expression of latria. As a sacrifice, right, as an act of adoration. And so it roots us in that distinctive worship and helps us to differentiate between it and other kinds of worship.“ by Father Gregory Pine
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Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
6/1/24
Is sacrifice just offering up something to make someone else's life better? Theology makes it sound more complex. So, what is Sacrifice? How is the Mass a sacrifice?
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