Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
Communion … re-enacts our redemption. Each time we celebrate this sacrament we embody the covenant of Christ.
John J. Pilch
Ritual effects a change in status, but a ceremony is a regular and predictable occurrence which confirms and legitimates people's roles and status in a community.
As the old covenant had been ratified by the blood of sheep and calves, so the new covenant was to be ratified by the blood of the Lord.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
The ancient world had a way of seeing the obvious: blood carries the stuff of life.
Reginald H. Fuller
Why was it necessary in the Bible for a covenant to be ratified in
blood?