Hebrews: The Heavenly Grandeur of the New Covenant (with Dr. Andrew Swafford)

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🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered where Christ fits in the story of salvation? The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament beautifully shows us how Christ is the fulfillment of the old covenant and the pinnacle of this story. In this episode, Dr. Andrew Swafford gives us an insight into his new study on the letter to the Hebrews, which unveils the heavenly grandeur of the new covenant. In Christ, we can now experience heaven on earth!

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“What you get out of Hebrews is that the new covenant is not a text, it’s a living liturgical reality”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. When you read some parts of the Bible like the letter to the Hebrews you've come across
0:19.2	strange things sometimes like you read about priests and tabernacles and
0:23.2	sanctuaries and gifts and sacrifices and Levites and you may be
0:27.3	wondering what does this have to do with my life? Well I'm here to tell you that it has to
0:32.4	do with everything in your life. If you want to worship
0:35.5	God and live as a great Catholic, you just have to have a key to unlock the mysteries and some of these books
0:41.2	and passages of the Bible. And I also want to share with you that there is good news that there is a great
0:46.2	key out there to help us and it's a brand new book in video program series written by
0:50.9	a good friend of mine Dr Andrew Swafford at Benedictine College.
0:55.3	He's an associate professor of theology there.
0:58.3	And I have him as a special guest on the show today to unlock the mystery of the letter to the Hebrews.
1:04.3	So Andrew, welcome to the show.
1:07.3	Dr. Sri, it's so good to be all with you.
1:09.4	What a pleasure.
1:10.7	Well, I have to tell everybody here that not only are you an author, an amazing teacher, but as I mentioned in the intro here, you've been a long time friend.
1:19.0	So I knew Andrew when he was Andy Swafford at Benedictine College and he was a student of mine many many
1:25.6	years ago and definitely one of the brightest most passionate students that came from the
1:31.8	football team and he came to play football at Bennington College but found
1:36.4	Jesus at a deeper level and then ended up being a theology philosophy major and you've
1:40.9	gone on to do master's work in scripture and then also move on to do your
1:46.8	doctorate and theology and you've been teaching now for how many years of Benedictin?
1:56.5	I just finished 13. 13 years of Benedictine so he's finished longer than I was there for nine years and you've you've been there
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