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'''Explanations'''* Mass is the term used of the celebration of the [[What is Mass?Eucharist]]* (the Lord's Supper) in the Latin rites of the [[An overview of Roman Catholic teaching about Church]] and in some [[Anglican]] churches. The word itself is derived from the phrase with which the Massliturgical celebration concludes in [[Latin]], ''Ite, missa est''. In this phrase, the word ''missa'' is usually explained as late Latin for classical Latin ''missio'', so that the phrase would be literally translated as: "Go, it is the sending".

'''Articles / opinions'''* The [[Some short comments about Council of Trent]] reaffirmed the Roman Catholic teaching that the Mass is not just a re-creation or remembrance of the Last Supper, but rather it is the same Sacrifice of Calvary offered in an unbloody manner: "The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different. And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass by different users, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and offered in an unbloody manner... this sacrifice is truly propitiatory" <ref>Doctrina de ss. Missae sacrificio, c. 2, quoted in Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1367</ref>. It is Roman Catholic belief that the wheaten bread and grape wine are in objective reality, not merely symbolically, converted into Christ's body and blood, a conversion referred to as [[transubstantiation]], so that the whole Christ, body and blood, soul and divinity, is truly, really, and substantially contained in the sacrament of the Eucharist.

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