Daily Reading for Thursday January 21, 2021 FIRST READING "He offered sacrifices once and for all by offering himself" the letter to the Hebrews (7, 25 - 8, 6)

Daily Reading for Thursday January 21, 2021 

FIRST READING 

"He offered sacrifices once and for all by offering himself" 

the letter to the Hebrews (7, 25 - 8, 6) 

Brothers, Jesus is capable of definitively saving those who through him come forward to God, because he is always alive to intercede on their behalf.

It is indeed the high priest that we needed: holy, innocent, immaculate; now separated from sinners, he is now higher than the heavens. He does not need, like the other high priests, to offer daily sacrifices, first for his personal sins, then for those of the people; this he did once and for all by offering himself.

The law of Moses establishes as high priests men full of weakness; but the word of the divine oath, which comes after the Law, establishes the Son as high priest, led for eternity to his perfection. And here is the gist of what we mean: it is this high priest that we have, he who sat at the right hand of the Divine Majesty in the heavens, after having performed the service of the true Sanctuary. and the true Tent, which was pitched by the Lord and not by a man. Every high priest is established to offer gifts and sacrifices; it was therefore necessary that our high priest also had something to offer. In fact, if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts in accordance with the Law:

As for the high priest that we have, the service which is due to him is all the more distinguished as he is the mediator of a better alliance, based on better promises. 

The Word of the Lord