New Covenant

Brothers and sisters: It is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats take away sins. For this reason, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; in holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight.

Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll, behold, I come to do your will, O God.’” First he says, “Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in.” These are offered according to the law. Then he says, “Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second. By this “will,” we have been consecrated through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:4-10)

I strongly recommend you view Bishop Robert Barron’s Sunday Sermon “Drinking the Blood of Christ” (March 9).  I learned a lot about blood sacrifices described in the Old Testament (old covenant) as compared to the new covenant referenced by Jeremiah and then Jesus, our Christ.  Barron does a splendid job capturing what the new covenant was intended to accomplish and how Jesus “fit the bill,” so to speak.  His sermon helps give perspective to this reading from Hebrews.

Deacon David Pierce