{"id":10123,"date":"2024-02-15T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=10123"},"modified":"2024-02-15T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T14:55:20","slug":"the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-28\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Depths of the Mass #28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Eucharistic Prayer \u2013 The Oblation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The greatest sacrifice ever offered is the sacrifice of Jesus freely giving his life <strong><em><u>for us<\/u><\/em><\/strong> on the Cross.&nbsp; As Jesus says in John 15:13, \u201c<em>No one has greater love than this,&nbsp;to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The Eucharistic Prayers use both the terms \u201csacrifice\u201d and \u201coblation.\u201d&nbsp; The sacrifice is the sacrifice of Jesus\u2019 life.&nbsp; We offer his sacrifice back to God our Father as an oblation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">What does Jesus\u2019 Crucifixion have to do with the Eucharist?&nbsp; <strong><em><u>Everything<\/u><\/em><\/strong>!&nbsp; When Jesus instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper, He said, <em>this is my Body which will be given up for you\u2026this is my Blood which will be poured out for you.<\/em>&nbsp; By these words, Jesus makes our celebration of the Eucharist and his Crucifixion <strong><em>one.<\/em>&nbsp; <\/strong>Never forget that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eucharistic Prayer \u2013 The Oblation The greatest sacrifice ever offered is the sacrifice of Jesus freely giving his life for us on the Cross.&nbsp; As Jesus says in John 15:13, \u201cNo one has greater love than this,&nbsp;to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.\u201d The Eucharistic Prayers use both the terms \u201csacrifice\u201d and \u201coblation.\u201d&nbsp; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-28\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Hidden Depths of the Mass #28&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[733],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMTPk-2Dh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10124,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123\/revisions\/10124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}