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• Sacrifice of the Christ = one time event in our history
• God exists out of time
• Christ, the High Priest offered a sacrifice in time, Himself, God exists out of time, so to God, it appears as the eternal sacrifice on the Cross -- to us, it is a one-time event, which has happened ONCE.
• That is why in Revelation, we see the sacrifice as God sees it -- a lamb, standing as though he had been slain (Rev. 5:6).
• Christ appears in heaven in the state of a victim not because he still needs to suffer but because for all eternity he re-presents himself to God appealing to the work of the cross, interceding for us (Rom 8:34), and bringing the graces of Calvary to us.
• The Mass is a participation in this one heavenly offering.<
• Note -- it is not the re-sacrifice of Christ, but the participation in the one-time sacrifice that has already happened
• Christ's death on the cross was propitiatory and that is why God sees it as in revelation, a lamb standing proudly, giving of his blood, the Eucharist

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This is part of a bigger picture which itself is part of a tryptych by van Eyck



This dates from 1432 and is in Ghent. The mystical nature of the Eucharist as being a way in we IN time, participate in an event which is in the past in our timeline and yet ETERNAL for God is one that dates back

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This is part of a bigger picture which itself is part of a tryptych polyptych by van Eyck



This dates from 1432 and is in Ghent. The mystical nature of the Eucharist as being a way in we IN time, participate in an event which is in the past in our timeline and yet ETERNAL for God is one that dates back