Francis, “The Mass Is A Memorial”

The Mass “is the memorial of the Paschal Mystery of Christ”, Pope Francis said during the general audience on November 22. He added that according to the biblical meaning the term memory “is not only the memory of past events, but it makes them in a certain way present and actual”.

Francis compared this to the Jewish celebration of Passover. He never mentioned the word “sacrifice”. According to Catholic doctrine the Mass is first and foremost a true and propitiatory sacrifice.

The webpage akacatholic.com confronts Francis with Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani (+1979) and his Critical Study of the New Mass where Ottaviani states that defining the Mass as memorial is unacceptable if employed in an absolute sense.

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Dr Bobus

Nov 28, 2017

If it's not a memorial, why is this found just after the second consecration?
Hæc quotiescúmque fecéritis, in mei memóriam faciétis.
Nb: Christ is a Person, a Divine PersonMore

If it's not a memorial, why is this found just after the second consecration?

Hæc quotiescúmque fecéritis, in mei memóriam faciétis.

Nb: Christ is a Person, a Divine Person

tbswv

Nov 27, 2017

A “memorial” is a memory of a person. Our Lord gives us much more than that. He gives us Himself truly present in the Eucharist: body, blood, soul, and divinity. Therefore the mass is not a memorial or symbolic event.

mccallansteve

Nov 27, 2017

Oh year, a memorial, not a sacrifice. How silly of me to have forgotten.

Josefine

2Nov 27, 2017

We should pay only attention to the teachings of Christ and the Apostles, rather than to those who ignores His Word in the scriptures and modify it.
"Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf. …More

Fischl

Nov 27, 2017

Ignorant or evil or both