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Caww -- where exactly have you read anywhere saying the "re-Sacrifice of Christ"? This is a false statement

Christ's sacrifice is the same in each mass, wherever, whenever. All we do is repeat the offering of THE MASS, the renewal of the celebration, the commemoration, the remembrance, the celebration of the ONE-TIME sacrifice. Christ is not offered again and again, but He has already offered Himself once and the mass has THAT one-time sacrifice as it's sacrifice.

The belief that Christ is there in bread and wine is shared by Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans, Copts, Armenians etc. -- this is NOT a remembrance (you are correct on that), this IS Christ.

Yet, the eucharist is NOT a re-sacrifice of Christ, this is participation in that ONE sacrifice of Christ which happened in the past and which God sees in heaven as shown in Revelation.

It may be hard for you to accept this -- it was also hard for the Roman pagans to believe this, hence Justin Martyr who wrote in his First Apology (A.D. 151) to the pagan Emperor "The food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nurtured, is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus."

"The food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nurtured, is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus."

Jesus did not come to nurture our flesh and blood...

1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

The flesh and blood are corrupt...

Mar 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Mar 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
Mar 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Mar 7:16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
Mar 7:17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
Mar 7:18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

And conversely, whatever enters from without can not help him

Mar 7:19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

Purging ALL meat and wine...

God condemns your religion at every turn and yet you guys claim the name of Jesus while rejecting most of what Jesus said...

If Justin Martyr believed one could become clean or holy by putting something into his stomache, he is a heretic of the first order just like the rest who teach this damnable heresy...