Sunday, 1 November 2015 : Letter to the Hebrews 9,1-12.
Even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. For a tent was constructed, the first one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the Presence; this is...
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After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, ‘Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all people, to...
View ArticleMonday, 2 November 2015 : Letter to the Hebrews 10,11-18.
Every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, ‘he...
View ArticleTuesday, 3 November 2015 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified...
View ArticleTuesday, 3 November 2015 : Letter to the Hebrews 10,19-25.
Since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), and since we have a great priest...
View ArticleWednesday, 4 November 2015 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you...
View ArticleWednesday, 4 November 2015 : Letter to the Hebrews 10,26-31.
If we wilfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgement, and a fury of fire that will consume...
View ArticleThursday, 5 November 2015 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
‘I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,...
View ArticleThursday, 5 November 2015 : Letter to the Hebrews 10,32-39.
But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and persecution, and sometimes being partners...
View ArticleFriday, 6 November 2015 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. ‘Righteous Father,...
View ArticleFriday, 6 November 2015 : Letter to the Romans 5,12-16.
Just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when...
View ArticleSaturday, 7 November 2015 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my...
View ArticleSaturday, 7 November 2015 : Letter to the Romans 5,17-21.
If, because of the one man’s trespass, death exercised dominion through that one, much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness exercise dominion in...
View ArticleSunday, 8 November 2015 : Commentary Saint Hilary
The Father is who he is, and we must believe that. As for the Son, our mind gets discouraged in trying to reach him, and with every word we hesitate to make it heard. For he is begotten of the One who...
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At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, ‘How...
View ArticleSunday, 8 November 2015 : Letter to the Hebrews 9,11-15.
When Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation), he entered once for all into the...
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‘Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The...
View ArticleMonday, 9 November 2015 : Letter to the Hebrews 8,1-6.
The main point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent...
View ArticleTuesday, 10 November 2015 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Again Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and bandits; but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. Whoever enters by me...
View ArticleTuesday, 10 November 2015 : Letter to the Hebrews 8,7-13.
If that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one. God finds fault with them when he says: ‘The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will...
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