Mass In Different Contexts

The term mass as I first encountered it in my early childhood under my parent's care, is a gathering of people headed by a priest. Now, as I understand it in my adult life, the catholic mass is a celebration, as an offering to the Father,of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, to suffer, and be crucified, and die on the cross. This same sacrifice, made more than two thousand years ago, is re-lived by the priest among the people without being bloody as had happened before, during the masses of the universal Catholic church, celebrated around the world. This is also practiced by some Protestants.This is made possible through the power of the Holy Spirit that comes down to the bread, in the form of a host and wine, that represents the body and blood of Christ. The host is transformed to the body of Christ to His actual flesh that was sacrificed on the wooden cross. This is made possible by Transubstantiation during the consecration part of the mass. The host becomes flesh yet still appears to have the properties of bread. This same bread is partaken by the mass participants during communion, to take into their own body, the body of Christ and be part of the sacrifice that Jesus made for the salvation of mankind, and be resurrected with Him, from the grave of our own sin, to be able to live in peace in the fullness of life. For the believer, this is a call to welcome and accept His heavenly kingdom on earth and hope for a union with Him in the Afterlife.

Mass also is the term coined for the major part of the citizens of a country. For some nations, they consist the majority of its residents, which for some countries consist of the marginalized, the economically disadvantaged or what we call the poor and those in the happy middle-ground or what we call the average income group.

From a scientific point of view, mass as defined in a google search is "a quantity of matter forming a body of indefinite shape and mass." Within the gravitational relative domain of earth, this mass is what we commonly know as weight with the international standard being measured in kilograms. Within the universe, depending on the relative location of the matter, within a heavenly body, it will have a different measure. Modern Physics now begins to harness the energy, that Einstein quantified in the formula E=MC(squared), during his time. This means that the energy that a mass can generate is equal to its relative weight multiplied by the measurement of the speed of light raised to the second power. In other words, energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the speed of light that is multiplied by itself.