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The writer of Hebrews answers your question. Any repeated offering of Christ's one-time, perfectly accomplished sacrifice contradicts God's word. As Calvin noted, to repeat the offering over and over makes a mockery of Christ's single, completed atonement for all the sins of His flock.

"Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin." -- Hebrews 10:7-18

Rejoice. We have been redeemed.

"Be not afraid. Only believe." -- Mark 5:36

If you want to critique Catholic teaching that is all well and good. But be kind enough to criticize what is really taught not what you think is taught.

There is one sacrifice of the Mass, the same sacrifice given at Calvary. From the Catechism of The Catholic Church

1366 The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit:

[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper “on the night when he was betrayed,” [he wanted] to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice (as the nature of man demands) by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit.187

1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: “The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different.” “In this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner.”188
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From Mediator Dei
“Now the Apostle of the Gentiles proclaims the copious plenitude and the perfection of the sacrifice of the cross, when he says that Christ by one oblation has perfected for ever them that are sanctified.[72] For the merits of this sacrifice, since they are altogether boundless and immeasurable, know no limits; for they are meant for all men of every time and place. This follows from the fact that in this sacrifice the God-Man is the priest and victim; that His immolation was entirely perfect, as was His obedience to the will of His eternal Father; and also that He suffered death as the Head of the human race: “See how we were bought: Christ hangs upon the cross, see at what a price He makes His purchase . . . He sheds His blood, He buys with His blood, He buys with the blood of the Spotless Lamb, He buys with the blood of God’s only Son. He who buys is Christ; the price is His blood; the possession bought is the world.”[73]

This purchase, however, does not immediately have its full effect; since Christ, after redeeming the world at the lavish cost of His own blood, still must come into complete possession of the souls of men. Wherefore, that the redemption and salvation of each person and of future generations unto the end of time may be effectively accomplished, and be acceptable to God, it is necessary that-men should individually come into vital contact with the sacrifice of the cross, so that the merits, which flow from it, should be imparted to them. In a certain sense it can be said that on Calvary Christ built a font of purification and salvation which He filled with the blood He shed; but if men do not bathe in it and there wash away the stains of their iniquities, they can never be purified and saved.”

I hope you can see by these writings that the Church does not teach that Christ is resacrificed. But that His sacrifice is made present to us.

Say you do not believe that Christ is truly present as the Church teaches or say that you do not believe that the Priest acts as alter Christi as we believe. Say you don’t believe that there are 7 sacraments. With all the points of disagreement between Catholics and non Catholics there should be no need to debate assumed dogma rather than actual.

Thank you. I take it the anwsers to my questions are as follows(please correct me if I get any of these wrong-I don’t want to put words in your mouth).

Dr., is this(the belief that “the perpetual offering of the mass blasphemes the word and will of God”) a common Protestant belief?-yes

Do Masses offered by other Churches such as the Orthodox and Oriental Christians blaspheme the word and will of God?
-yes, if they are considered as some sort of sacrifice

Or is there some difference in the Catholic(Latin rite) Mass that makes it alone blasphemous in your view?-no

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