A proper understanding of the sacfice of the Mass

I saw this on a message board today and simply HAD to put it somewhere so others could see. Let me know what you think, GB'ers.
-TWS


"God became incarnate through Jesus. While Jesus was on Earth he was physically with us. People could have communion with Him because He was, well present.

At the assumption Jesus returned to his Father. Now, spiritually Jesus is still with us. He is not disconnected from us. But the church holds that Jesus still wants PHYSICAL communion with us.

So God becomes incarnate once again through the Mass. The elements become the flesh of Jesus and His blood in a similar way to how Jesus was made God incarnate as man. If God could become man, could not also God become bread and wine? The bread and the wine are replaced by the flesh and blood of Jesus quite literally but in an incarnate form.

That’s why we talk about Communion. The receiving of the Sacrament is PHYSICAL *communion* with our savior.

The changing of the elements then allows the pries to make an offering unto God - NOT re-sacrificing Jesus but presenting the one time sacrifice to the Father saying, “Look, here, physically is the flesh and blood of your son (in incarnate form as bread and wine) shed for us. Remember the covenant that was made as we remember her today.” The flesh and blood are literally RE-PRESENTED to the Father for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus is not re-crucified (a common error in understanding of Catholic teaching) but the results of that one time sacrifice - flesh and blood - are shown to the father. No more sheep or goats but a one time offering that has been made allowing us to RE-PRESENT Jesus to the Father.

It’s quite deep actually. We give our sins over to God at the start of the Mass, God gives us His own son’s flesh and blood which we offer up to God as a kind of reminder, and He then gives us communion with His Son so He is still physically present on Earth even after ascending to Heaven. He hands over our sins, the priest offers up the one time sacrifice to God and He then give us His son in physical form.

So you won’t find meat under the microscope of a consecrated host or hemoglobin in the wine. Jesus is INCARNATE in another form."