Why does the Church offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?
Many Catholics know how to attend Mass, yet few have been taught why every Holy Mass is offered. Traditional Catholic doctrine teaches that every Mass is offered for four great ends: Adoration, Thanksgiving, Reparation, and Petition.
In this lesson from the Holy Mass Explained series, we examine these Four Ends using only traditional Catholic sources, including the Douay–Rheims Bible, the Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent, the Catechism of St. Pius X, the Baltimore Catechism, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Alphonsus Liguori, St. Leonard of Port Maurice, Dom Prosper Guéranger, Pope St. Pius X, and Pope Pius XII’s Mediator Dei.
Discover why the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the Church’s greatest act of worship and how every prayer and ceremony of the Traditional Latin Mass directs our minds toward these four sacred purposes. Learn how understanding them can transform the way we assist at Mass by consciously uniting ourselves to Christ’s one perfect sacrifice offered to the Eternal Father.
This video is purely catechetical and is intended to deepen knowledge and love of the Catholic Faith as handed down through Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the perennial teaching of the Church.
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