{"content":[{"text":"which was ratiﬁed in Christ for a race of Jews and Gentiles, which would be one in the Spirit and \n would form the new People of God.1","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.091021,"width":0.8578720000000001,"height":0.03776700000000001}},{"text":"Hebrews 9:11-15 \n This was addressed to Christians of Jewish origin who were experiencing persecution. The author is trying \n to show them that the Old Testament has been fulﬁlled.5","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.147561,"width":0.875231,"height":0.05724700000000002}},{"text":"Brothers and sisters: \n 11When Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be, This includes \n sanctifying grace and entry into heaven.5 passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle \n not made by hands, Christ passed through the heavens into the very presence of the Father and is \n seated in heaven at his right hand.5 that is, not belonging to this creation, His body could not be \n described this way until after the Resurrection which made it a spiritualized, heavenly body. (There \n is also a thought that this refers to the heavenly regions through which Christ passed as he came into \n the highest heaven, the abode of God.) So, either by passing through the heavens or through his \n most sacred body, Christ achieved Redemption by offering his own blood.5 A tabernacle is a \n dwelling place or receptacle for the Eucharist. After Communion, we become a living tabernacle. \n 12he entered once for all into the sanctuary, This is in marked contrast to the “once a year” entrance \n of the high priests of Israel.18 not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, Just \n as the high priest had the right to enter the Holy of Holies because he bore the blood of the \n sacriﬁcial animals, so Jesus’ life, offered in sacriﬁce, gives him right to enter the heavenly \n sanctuary.2 thus obtaining eternal redemption. Once a year, on the Day of Atonement, the high \n priest could enter the Holy of Holies, which was in the innermost room of the Temple. This small \n room housed the Ark of the Covenant, which was a chest that contained the original stone tablets on \n which the Ten Commandments were written. The high priest was the only one who could enter into \n this sacred spot. The peoples’ only access to God was through the high priest, who offered a \n sacriﬁce and used its blood to atone ﬁrst for his own sins and then for the peoples’ sins.7 \n 13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a heifer’s ashes Heifer’s ashes were mixed \n with water to anoint those deﬁled by contact with dead bodies, human bones or graves.2 can \n sanctify those who are deﬁled so that their ﬂesh is cleansed, This was an external rite of \n puriﬁcation.2 \n 14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself Jesus is \n both priest and sacriﬁcial victim.18 unblemished to God, The sacriﬁcial animal had to be physically \n unblemished while Jesus was morally unblemished.2 What used to be a yearly ritual, required again \n and again for forgiveness, has been rendered unnecessary by the perfect atonement achieved by \n Jesus. The words in each Eucharistic prayer, “This is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and \n everlasting covenant,” remind us each time of the sacriﬁces that preceded Jesus’ own, and of the \n perfection of his one eternal sacriﬁce.6 cleanse our consciences from dead works The blood- \n sprinkling produced only ritual cleanness but the purifying power of Jesus’ sacriﬁce puriﬁes from \n “dead works”, that is, the sins that cause spiritual death.2 to worship the living God. \n 15For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: Jesus, being both God and man, became the \n mediator between man and God, the representative of both sides. He restored peace between them \n and obtained divine grace for man. He also gave himself as an offering to pay man’s debt with his \n blood and his death.5 since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the \n ﬁrst covenant, Through his sacriﬁce on the cross, Jesus has brought deliverance from the sins","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.22386,"width":0.882258,"height":0.719584}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}