{"id":84470,"date":"2014-10-17T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=84470"},"modified":"2016-05-25T14:32:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:32:31","slug":"the-four-ends-of-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-four-ends-of-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Ends of Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>‘ve long been an admirer of the Catholic Gentleman<\/a> blog, so much so that I recently added a link in the “Blogs of Note” section on the left.<\/p>\n

Today they’ve got a great article up on The Four Ends of Mass<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s begin with what the mass is not. The mass is not a community meal designed to strengthen our unity and \u201cgather us in.\u201d <\/strong>Feelings of unity and community can be strengthened at any number of events, including potlucks or Church picnics. At most, feeling unified with our brothers and sisters in Christ is a nice byproduct of the mass, but it is certainly not its chief end.<\/p>\n

Second, the mass is not about you.<\/strong> It is not about having a wonderful \u201cweekend experience,\u201d as one new parish based program claims. Nor is its purpose to make you feel good about yourself, to encourage you, to inspire you, or to make you feel included and welcomed. You simply aren\u2019t the audience\u2014God is, and the mass is all about him.<\/p>\n

So what is the mass essentially? It is first and foremost a sacrifice.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check it out!<\/p>\n

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I‘ve long been an admirer of the Catholic Gentleman blog, so much so that I recently added a link in the “Blogs of Note” section on the left. Today they’ve got a great article up on The Four Ends of Mass. Let\u2019s begin with what the mass is not. The mass is not a community meal designed to strengthen our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-ephemera","category-sacred-liturgy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-lYq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85705,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/todays-solemnity-of-the-assumption\/","url_meta":{"origin":84470,"position":0},"title":"Today’s Solemnity of the Assumption","author":"Thom","date":"15 August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning's Mass at Holy Rosary was the last solemnity celebrated together by the parishes of Holy Rosary and Saint Joseph. 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