Holocaust is what Christ did on Calvary

 The Holocaust was the Pluperfect Salvific Self Sacrifice of Jesus Christ on Calvary in which His burning love substituted for the material fire of the Old Testament holocausts, all of which sacrifices were instituted to help prepare the once chosen people to accept the Messias as their Saviour.

At any moment in time on earth the Church re-presents this once-for-all Holy Holocaust, with Jesus as Priest and victim,  to help us attain unto Salvation and Sanctification; the two reasons for which Jesus established His Church

But the majority of Messias-Deniers, then and now, rejected/reject Jesus as the Messias and one of the consequences of that denial is their once true religion has devolved into anthropomorphic racial supremacism to such an extent that they have substituted their own sufferings in place of the Salvific Sacrifice of Jesus Christ and, to add spiritual insult to material injury, the One True Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church has aided and abetted this superstitious supersessionism with the sad result that if the reader were to ask any of his Catholic friends - "What is the holocaust?" - 99.999% of them would respond with the answer guaranteed to please the Messias-Deniers while the 0.001% of Catholics answering  correctly - "The Holocaust is the pluperfect Salvific Sacrifice of Jesus Christ on Calvary and it is also the Holy Sacrifice/Holy Holocaust of the Mass" - would be looked upon as atavistic anti semites.

A key to all of this malign substitution is to be found in Leviticus, Chapter 1-3.  I will not quote it at length but make reference to it sequentially. The crucial point to be emphasised is that the victims to be offered in the various holocausts had to be unblemished.

If the Jewish victims (and them alone, no other victims are to included in the war crimes  of the Nazis) are victims of a holocaust, according to Leviticus, they must be spotless; innocent and blameless.

Is that what our Popes and Prelates believe of the Jews killed during the war; that they are spotless?  The Jews who killed Christ?

Well, what about Jesus - surely our Hierarchy  teaches that Jesus is spotless and without guilt?

One might think so but them one might read the Catechism and learn that it does not teach that Jesus is spotless; it teaches than Jesus is guilty- two different times - of giving scandal and owing to who He is and His authority His giving scandal is malign in proportion to His authority - Hmmmn, who has ever had authority equal to His?

See Catechism entries # 588 and #589 and remember Jesus (Gospel of Matthew) "..woe to that man by whom the scandal comes."

But, the faithful Catholic later learns that some of the authorities solicited B'nai B'rith to write the entries on Jesus and so maybe that accounts and why the Cathechism teaches in #589 that it was Jesus who placed the religious authorities of Israel on the horns of a dilemma...

The faithful Catholic understands that a dilemma is a difficult problem for which there is no good answer; choosing Christ as your Messiah is not good?

Let's soldier on as it gets progressively more insane.

Lev 3 speaks of peace offerings in which part of the victim is eaten by the priest and the persons for whom the sacrifice was offered.

Were the Nazis a race of priests sacrificing spotless Jews and occasionally eating parts of them  as a way to worship God?

Just. Stop. It.

Stop speaking of any Holocaust other that the Holy Holocaust.

Few remember - but I do - that at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council some of the Council Fathers gave a press conference in which they referenced the Holocaust of Christ.

In "The Sacrifice of the Mass" by Rev. Herbert Lucas, S.J. he observes;

Now in a sentence which has been embodied in one of the prayers in the Roman Missal (the Secreta of the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost), St. Leo tells us that in His one sacrifice Our Lord has united and consummated the ancient rites with all their diversities. And indeed it is easy to see that His offering of Himself was a holocaust by reason of its completeness ; a propitiatory offering for sin by reason of its atoning efficacy and purpose, and finally a peace-offering whereby the atonement was not only made but sealed by a sacrificial meal...

Hence it is explicitly noted, as an element in the perfection of the sacrifice of Christ, that in this case Priest and Victim were one and the same. And yet even here the idea of substitution was not wanting, for here the all-perfect Victim was self-offered for His people. In the divine tragedy of Calvary it is plain that it was not the act of slaying Our Lord that constituted the sacrifice, but Our Lord's acceptance of the death inflicted on Him.

Let others talk about this or that Holocaust, for me there is only one Holy Holocaust worthy of the  name Holocaust