As Christ said, "by your words thou shalt be condemned."
The one-time sacrifice of Christ on the cross has been offered to God and accepted by God for all the sins of Christ's flock.
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 10:12-18"But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Thus, the Lord's Supper is a memorial; a sign and seal of the salvation Christ won for us on the cross.
Not a perpetual sacrifice as if the first one wasn't enough.
Ah, I think you're playing The Game again.
Do you mean this statement to be in contrast to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?
Your epithet does not describe the Holy Eucharist.
No it isn't, and neither are the rest of the dogpile of Protestant conjectures and postulates, correct.
The Church Christ founded teaches us to follow exactly what Jesus did at the last supper: "Do this in memmory of Me." What is "this?" Pronounce the bread and wine the body and blood of our Savior. Not some convoluted pack of Clintonian rationalizations designend to deny the Scriptures just as surely as Satan did in the temptation of our Lord.
But the Eucharist is the sign that Christ is with us, as he promised. Behind the veil is Christ in glory. By this means we are made present at his sacrifice. If the invisible Lord God could be present with Israel in the desert, why not also with us by a visible sign? If the Holy Spirit can speak to us from the pages of a book, why not in the form of bread and wine? If the Holy Spirit can bring forth a man from the Virgin, why not from bread and wine?