Daily Reading for Friday January 22, 2021
FIRST READING
"He is the mediator of a better alliance"
the letter to the Hebrews (8, 6-13)
Brothers, the service which returns to our high priest is all the more distinguished as he is the mediator of a better alliance, based on better promises. Indeed, if the first Alliance had been flawless, there would have been no need to look for a second. Now, this is indeed a reproach which God makes against his people when he says: Here are days coming, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the Covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt: they did not stay in my Covenant; so I left them, says the Lord. But this will be the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel when those days have passed, says the Lord. When I give them my laws, I will write them in their minds and on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. They will no longer have to teach each his fellow citizen or each his brother by saying: “Learn to know the Lord! Because everyone will know me, from the youngest to the oldest. I will be forgiving of their faults, I will no longer remember their sins.
Speaking of the new Covenant, God made the first old; now what is becoming old and aging is on the verge of disappearing.
The Word of the Lord
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