{"id":6354,"date":"2012-04-05T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2012-04-05T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T18:21:07","slug":"er-messen-et-offer-eller-et-maltidsfelleskap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2012\/04\/er-messen-et-offer-eller-et-maltidsfelleskap\/","title":{"rendered":"Er messen et offer eller et m\u00e5ltidsfelleskap?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeg har skrevet om dette mange ganger f\u00f8r, men tar med et lett-\u00e5-forst\u00e5 innlegg om temaet<\/a> av Fr. Longenecker. Han har for\u00f8vrig flyttet sin blogg for ikke lenge siden – les om det her<\/a>. Han skriver at noen katolikker mener (men de tar feil):<\/p>\n

…. the Mass is like the Last Supper when we all gather around Jesus in a fellowship meal! That\u2019s why the priest should face the people\u2013because it\u2019s like we\u2019re all sitting around the family dinner table with Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to see how this thinking came about, and within the \u201cspirit of Vatican 2\u2033 it\u2019s not hard to draw the conclusion that the Mass is essentially a fellowship meal and a re-enactment of the Last Supper. However, this is not the case. …<\/p>\n

… The Mass of the Lord\u2019s Supper is the one commemoration of the Lord\u2019s Supper in the liturgical year. The regular daily and weekly masses, while they may echo the Last Supper, are not primarily a commemoration of the Last Supper. The Mass is first and foremost a commemoration of Calvary<\/strong>. Through the holy sacrifice of the Mass the one, full, final sacrifice of Christ, both priest and victim, is brought into the present moment and it\u2019s eternal benefits are applied to our needs here and now.<\/p>\n

When we go to Mass therefore, we stand at the foot of the cross, we do not sit down with Jesus at the Last Supper. To be sure, the Mass is a \u201cfellowship meal\u201d but it is a ritual meal into which the Jewish Passover is echoed and the sacrifice of Calvary is made present. The Last Supper was the bridge between these two\u2013a bridge between the Passover and the death of Christ the Lord.<\/p>\n

Why does this matter? For several reasons: first of all, if the Mass is a fellowship meal it is easy to forget the importance of the sacrifice of Our Lord. Is it any mistake that in Catholic churches where the emphasis is on the fellowship meal that the crucifix is often small in size, relegated to a side position, replaced with a resurrected Lord or absent completely?<\/p>\n

When the emphasis is on the fellowship meal too often the emphasis of worship shifts from Christ the Lord and his once for all sacrifice for the sins of the world and moves to us, our fellowship, our feelings …<\/p>\n

Finally, the shift to fellowship meal rather than the sacrifice of the Mass reduces the sense of reverence. If it is all about us and our community then what is the need for reverence in worship? If it is a fellowship meal the church becomes our house not God\u2019s temple. The mood is therefore one of the campfire, the shared picnic or the family reunion.<\/p>\n

The ironic thing is, that when we focus on the sacrifice of the Mass we, in the end, get the fellowship we desire as well.<\/strong> As we face the altar together we are drawn togethers. As we focus on the same eternal beloved we come to regard one another as beloved. As we move to the same destination we also move closer to one another. Like lines from different starting points converging we come together in a mystical communion which is far more profound and eternal than an enjoyable, but earthly fellowship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeg har skrevet om dette mange ganger f\u00f8r, men tar med et lett-\u00e5-forst\u00e5 innlegg om temaet av Fr. Longenecker. Han har for\u00f8vrig flyttet sin blogg for ikke lenge siden – les om det her. Han skriver at noen katolikker mener (men de tar feil): …. the Mass is like the Last Supper when we all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katolsk","category-liturgi","category-teologi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6357,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}