this question is applicable to anyone with diffrent religions. i just want to know their answers.
2006-09-07 15:41:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We go to Mass to receive the beautiful gifts of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.... to serve Him and love Him.... to remind ourselves of our purpose in this life... and to take Christ with us into the world, by showing love towards other people.
2006-09-07 15:48:09 · answer #1 · answered by mia2kl2002 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catholic here-
I agree with the two answers above me. Mass is an uplifting experience, that raises a person to a higher spiritual level. No one is screaming, no shouting, no people jumping around.
We remember our Lord Jesus Christ, through prayer, communion, and worship.
Very rarely is the "Hail Mary" prayed during a Sunday mass-despite what people tell you.
Mass is open to all, come visit sometime.
May the Blessings of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit reach out to you. Peace be with you.
2006-09-07 22:52:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why attend Mass? The Mass is actually a worship service....not church in the sense Protestants understand.
It is actually a liturigical, or ritual type service; meaning it has a specific form and never changes. The form of the Mass is actually depicted throughout the Book of Revelation....the worship in Heaven. When we are in Mass we are worshipping God along with the worship in Heaven at the same time.
Mass is a prayer that requires participation of all present...the clergy and laity.
2006-09-07 22:53:27 · answer #3 · answered by Augustine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a time when the faith community comes together and receives God through His Word and in the Eucharist.
We receive and become the Body of Christ
2006-09-07 23:12:58 · answer #4 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To receive & be Nourished with the Body & Blood Of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
2006-09-07 22:55:30 · answer #5 · answered by clusium1971 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic mass is said in remembrance of the Last Supper when Jesus ...took bread and said to his disciples: take it and eat it, this is my body and did the same with the wine... take it and drink it, this is my blood, do this in remembrance of me.
2006-09-07 22:48:46 · answer #6 · answered by flugelberry 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Mass is quite properly, the most significant act of worship in which a body and/or soul may participate.
It is a complete worship service for those assembled, and for all God's family everywhere, whether in heaven, in purgatory, or on earth.
The Mass perfectly fulfills the old testament prophecy in Malachai 1:11 - "For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts."
Every Mass is a supernatural act, offering perfect worship to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but it is centered particularly on Jesus Christ.
It "works" on several levels, both natural and supernatural, but in an effort to make it as simple to understand as possible, here goes:
At Mass, we begin by admitting our sins and falures, we promise to do better in the future, and we ask God's forgiveness.
Then, we hear selections from the old testament, including passages from both the prophets and the psalms.
That done, we hear related passages from the new testament epistles, and finally from the Gospel.
A short, topical sermon or homily follows.
We recite the NIcene Creed, we pray for our various needs, we offer gifts, including bread, wine, and ourselves, to God.
Next, we do exactly what Jesus commanded at the Last Supper.
Luk 22:19 And taking bread, he gave thanks and brake and gave to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me.
Luk 22:20 In like manner, the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.
Then, through the actions of the priest, and the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus, the eternal, once for all sacrifice of Calvary becomes truly present on the altar, for us.
Once present, and with all of us "lined up" behind him, Jesus offers himself to his Father in heaven, for the forgiveness of sins, for the needs of all those assembled, and for the needs of the whole church (including all the various "non-Catholic" denominations).
"Ti 2:5 For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus"
Jesus presides for us in multiple roles, as our God, our high priest, the head of all mankind, our brother, and our redeemer.
Jesus is the eternal sacrifice for sin, and he is also the only sacrifice that is totally acceptable to his Father.
When we present the Father with a sacrifice such as this, offered to him personally on our behalf by his divine Son, God's justifiable anger for our many sins is turned to mercy, and the just punishment we deserve for those sins is turned to grace.
Luke 23:34 And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
Once this is accomplished, we pray the "Our Father" in thanksgiving and praise, then we rejoice in the supernatural peace which Jesus Christ has obtained for us.
Immediately afterwards, through the great sacrament of the holy Eucharist, God shares with us the same perfect sacrifice we just offered to him ... the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ.
Suitably provisioned and sanctified, we thank God once again, and then we go out into the world, to do God's work.
In a nutshell ... the Mass is a sacred renewal and remembrance of God's saving work ... of his infinite love and mercy ... and of his total self-giving for our salvation.
2006-09-08 00:40:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋