Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St Joseph.

I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work for the Tomistic Institute and this is Pines with Aquinas.

In this episode I would like to talk about sacrifice. Why? Well I think we have some

intuition or some insight into what sacrifice is. Certainly we use the word often

enough. It's like I need to give something up or I need to offer something

up in order to make someone else's life better. Okay so it's like listen I like

mint chocolate chip ice cream he likes mint chocolate chip ice cream. He likes men chocolate

ice cream. There's only one portion left. I need to sacrifice my love of

desire for an enjoyment of men chocolate chip ice cream so that he can you know partake.

So we have some kind of insight or intuition

as to what it means, but we hear it described

in theological conversations,

and it seems like it's more complicated than that. So let's get into the detail so that way we can appreciate

what sacrifice is, how Christ offers sacrifice, and then how the mass can be described as a sacrifice.

Here we go. All right, so as you might know, the question of

sacrifice has been somewhat controversial in the last century because you know people in their

approach to the most holy Eucharist will make out this dichotomy between on the

one hand you know like the Eucharist is like a celebration a meal

a Thanksgiving or on the other hand the Eucharist is an oblation an offering a, a sacrifice, a penitential act, okay.

And it's often that these two are pitted against each other and that those who insist upon sacrifice are somehow insufficiently appreciative of the way in which Christ

has changed our lives and changed our worship.

Such is the caricature.

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