2007-03-03 20:13:21 · 9 answers · asked by krry_blair 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
mass is like a gathering
2007-03-03 20:17:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not Catholic, but I always thought Mass is just a term they use to say church service. I am confused about the strange times, but I guess that could be just so alot more people can come.
2007-03-04 04:26:25 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mass is a gathering of people in a church where a priest reads passages from the gospels to give worshippers guidance and faith. near the end there is a reenactment of the last supper where the priest blesses read and wine and it symbolises the body and blood of Christ. Then everyone may go to the altar and taste the bread and wine but only if you attend confession regularly therefore i ha vent done that in fifteen years as that is last time i went to confession as i don't believe in telling some priest my sins when i can say sorry to god in my head and i know he hears me.
2007-03-04 05:06:12 · answer #3 · answered by green 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mass is the highest form of worship in the Catholic Church and the eastern Orthodox churches.
It is a re-enactment of the Last Supper, and of Christ offering His Body and shedding His Blood to take away the sin of the world.
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2007-03-04 04:21:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
1. Religious ceremony...
2. Weight (m=a/F) of everything in a church (including the church itself)
2007-03-04 04:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by cannadoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Mass is a supernatural work of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, centered on Jesus Christ, who is our mediator, perfect victim, heavenly high priest, divine sustenance, and eternal king.
Mass is the way God works through his Church and his ministerial priesthood, to supernaturally enable those living in the present day to experience and commemorate Jesus' one time, once for all, perfect sacrifice for the sins of the world, every hour of every day, 365 days per year, and in virtually every place, at once.
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.
The Mass also presents to God once again, the perfect sacrifice his son Jesus made once for us at Calvary, in order to maintain a permanent state of supernatural peace between God and sinful mankind.
1Co 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread,
1Co 11:24 And giving thanks, broke and said: Take ye and eat: This is my body, which shall be delivered for you. This do for the commemoration of me.
1Co 11:25 In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood. This do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me.
1Co 11:26 For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord, until he come.
The crucifix (cross with corpus) that is displayed above the altar inside every Catholic Church is there to remind us of all this.
The Mass combines true and perfect sacrifice with the most effective and practical worship. It is the very best that God can give, and the very best that we can offer God, in return.
The sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, which is at the very center of every Mass, and which is the real and substantial presence of Jesus Christ, enables all of the faithful to become one with God, in the most intimate way possible.
Joh 15:4 Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
Through the power of the Holy Spirit, every Mass encompasses and includes all of the faithful, in heaven, in purgatory, and on the earth.
Rev 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard all saying: To him that sitteth on the throne and to the Lamb, benediction and honour and glory and power, for ever and ever.
2007-03-04 05:34:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The celebration of the Eucharist with the priest and the congregation
2007-03-04 04:21:11 · answer #7 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the celebration of the faithful or as they used to say the Celebration of the Eucharist.
2007-03-04 04:22:25 · answer #8 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for some reason our catholic friends call the services 'the mass'
maybe one of our catholic friends could expand
2007-03-04 04:21:33 · answer #9 · answered by iammoza 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋