The Blasphemous Mass Ceremony Attempts to Crucify Christ Again and Again

By Pastor David Jimenez

“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.” Hebrews 10:11-14.

The word of God is very clear on the finality of Christ’s sacrifice on our behalf. He came to make a one-time offering for sin, never to be repeated over and over again. In no other way has the Roman Catholic Church diminished the sacrifice of Christ more openly than in the claims it makes for the efficacy of the mass as a sacrifice for sins. The ceremony of mass is esteemed equal in merit to Calvary by the Catholic Church. The mass ceremony is an unbiblical system of repeated sacrifices that blaspheme Christ and invalidate His work on the cross. We will look at two Catholic sources that explain a little bit about the procedure of the Catholic mass. Notice these blasphemous words:

“The priest brings Christ down from heaven, and renders Him present on our altar as the eternal Victim for the sins of man—not once, but a thousand times! The priest speaks, and lo! Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows His head in humble obedience to the priest’s command” (The Faith of Millions, pp. 255, 256, Rev. John A. O’Brien).

“Thus the priest may, in a certain manner, be called the creator of his Creator, since by saying the words of consecration he creates, as it were, Jesus in the sacrament, by giving him a sacramental existence and produces him as a victim to be offered to the eternal Father” (Dignity and Duties, pp. 32–33, by St. Alphonsus Liguori, a Catholic saint, bishop, and theologian).

These claims from the Catholic Church indeed demonstrate to us, without question, that the Papacy is the Antichrist of prophecy. The false concept of the mass is foreign to the Bible and the outrageous claims made for the mass service set the priests in place of Christ. The Catholic mass services have nothing to do with the everlasting gospel, nothing to do with the Christian life, and nothing to do with God’s true church. It rejects the true, biblical nature of God, Christ, sin, salvation, atonement, and forgiveness. The false concept of mass robs the important meaning of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and replaces it with superficial, man-centered blasphemous idolatry.

Our duty as faithful Seventh-day Adventists is to proclaim the present truth of the everlasting gospel, centered on the Three Angels’ Messages, and to expose falsehood. We are never called to support or participate in gross theological blasphemy.

Sources 

[1] http://adventmessenger.org/wp-content/uploads/General-Conference-Executive-Sings-the-Traditional-Latin-Mass-Song-–-in-Latin.mp4

[2] http://adventmessenger.org/celebrating-mass-when-adventists-become-indistinguishable-from-catholics-and-evangelicals-part-1/