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April 12, 2018 - August 17, 2019
When God spared the Jewish firstborn during the Plague of the Firstborn in Egypt, he “acquired” them and designated them for the special role of priest
change in the priesthood
because they alone chose him, the Levites were set aside for God’s service.
Day of Atonement,
transcendent religious patriarchy
did not have the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit to help them recognize or live up to the deeper need for grace.
“You shall be holy, for I am holy”
Hallowed be thy name
Christ came to earth as the Son of Man. The first creature on earth fashioned in an unrivaled sense as God’s image was therefore a man; that seems to indicate to me that he wished to institute only men as his official representatives on earth. Yet, he bound himself so intimately to one woman as no other on earth: He formed her so closely after his own image as no other human being before or after; he gave her a place in the Church for all eternity such as has been given to no other human being. And just so, he has called women in all times to the most
intimate union with him.
She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator
The presence of Christ’s sacred humanity in heaven is itself a perpetual pleading on our behalf. Our names are better written in his sacred wounds than the names of the twelve tribes on the gems of Aaron’s breastplate, and his heart’s desire for our salvation is always before God
only one sacrifice, but offered everywhere
when a
Catholic goes to confession, he confesses his guilt to God through the priest, who represents both God and the whole Church, and he is forgiven on behalf of both (see John 20:23).
“Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31).
The grain offering could only be wheat, just like the hosts for the Eucharist, because wheat in Israel (and now) was the most valued of all the grains. People must not only offer God the fruit of their labor, but the best result of their labors—from the gross, not net—and certainly not that which is left over after the bills are paid.
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commu...
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