Catholic Mass

Introduction

The Holy Mass in Roman Catholicism and the Lutheran is the liturgical act within which offers the Eucharist. His institution was the Last Supper of Jesus with his apostles. According to Catholic dogma, the Holy Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary renewed to celebrate the sacrament of the Eucharist, consecrating the bread and wine through a sacramental formula uttered the priest celebrant, which produces the effect of transubstantiation. According to Lutheran Christian dogma, the Eucharist is the true Body and the true Blood of Jesus Christ, delivered in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar for the forgiveness of sins and strengthening of the Faith Lutherans do not believe in transubstantiation, but Sacramental Union, which is a unique union that God works by the words of consecration in which unite the Body and Blood bread and wine, and the Spirit joins the water of baptism by the Word of God (Baldovin, John, p. 35-38).

Discussion

Definition and Origins

The term "Mass" originated in the fourth century to dismiss the faithful at the end of the Eucharistic ceremony and then all the celebration or well, the second part of it (the current Eucharistic celebration), according to St. Isidore of Seville. Subsequent explanations prefer its derivation from the Latin word missio. Thus, the Mass would be nothing to live life in practice what has been learned and lived in the Eucharistic liturgy. According to the Catechism of St. Pius X Mass is:

The Mass is the sacrifice that was prefigured in the sacrifices that natural religion and then the Jewish religion as he relates the Mosaic Law.

The sacrifices of natural religion were offered by Abel, Noah, Abraham and Melchizedek, etc (Baldovin, John, p. 35-38).

History

Mass of the Roman rite developed in the first centuries of our era. From about the IV century for the Western Church began writing Sacramentaries - full liturgical texts, but there was a number of local ceremonies in the administration of the Mass (Gallican, Ambrosian, Mozarabic, etc). Later, to simplify the process, the texts were written out entirely in the required form of the liturgy. The result was established lectionary. Under the Sacramentary was understood book bishop or priest, who included parts belonging tselebrantu Eucharistic liturgy (Canon, Collects, Preface, etc). At the end of IV century Ambrose in the assembly instructions for the newly baptized, titled 'De sacramentis', quoted the central part of the canon, which has been the core of the Roman ...