Tridentinerkonsilet om messens hellige offer
Jeg har sagt det flere ganger tidligere, med det faktum at messen er et offer har vært svært viktig for meg de siste årene, og det er sannsynligvis også den viktigste grunnen til at jeg er så interessert i den tradisjonelle latinske messen. I denne messen er det nemlig svært tydelig at Kristi fullkomne offer bæres fram for Gud, mens dette er mindre klart i den nye messen – faktisk svært uklart i noen kirker og med enkte prester. Jeg har derfor lest en del om hva det betyr at messen er et offer, og i forgårs leste jeg nøye hva Tridentinerkonsilets 22. sesjon sa om emnet. Følgende ble vedtatt 17. september 1562:
CHAPTER I
THE INSTITUTION OF THE MOST HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
Since under the former Testament, according to the testimony of the Apostle Paul, there was no perfection because of the weakness of the Levitical priesthood, there was need, God the Father of mercies so ordaining, that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchisedech,[Hebr. 7,11] our Lord Jesus Christ, who might perfect and lead to perfection as many as were to be sanctified. He, therefore, our God and Lord, though He was by His death about to offer Himself once upon the altar of the cross to God the Father that He might there accomplish an eternal redemption, nevertheless, that His priesthood might not come to an end with His death, at the last supper, on the night He was betrayed, that He might leave to His beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, whereby that bloody sacrifice once to be accomplished on the cross might be represented, the memory thereof remain even to the end of the world, and its salutary effects applied to the remission of those sins which we daily commit, …



Jeg har skrevet flere ganger før at jeg i yngre år ble svært påvirka av den kristne tenkeren Francis Schaeffer og hans arbeid på L’Abri. Se her: