The Ultimate Blood Sacrifice

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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To truly understand what Jesus did at the climax of his life—and what the Catholic Church does at every Mass—we must understand the importance of blood sacrifice to Judaism in Jesus’ time. Everything that Moses did at Mt. Sinai, and all that was done for a thousand years in the temple, was summed up by Christ’s ultimate blood sacrifice on the Cross, offered for the reconciliation of God and humanity. And this ultimate lifeblood of God, sprinkled by Christ the high priest once for all, is what the Mass re-presents and makes sacramentally present to us.

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0:32.5	warmth and light of Christ with each one of us. Peace be with you. Friends
0:39.3	today is the great solemnity of Corpus Christi. We celebrate the body and the
0:45.4	blood of Christ. It seems to me we will never understand the meaning of this
0:51.1	grazed feast until we grasp the importance of blood sacrifice for ancient
0:58.3	Israel. It's been said that the feature of the ancient world that would most
1:04.6	surprise and impress modern people if suddenly we were transported back in a
1:09.7	time machine would be the prevalence of this practice. Now though it's very
1:17.0	foreign to us the idea of blood sacrifice is actually pretty straightforward
1:22.1	which is one reason why you find it all over the world. A person would take an
1:27.1	aspect of God's creation, a bowl or a dove or a sheep and would offer it back to
1:34.2	God. Now no one at least in the Israelite world thought that God needed it.
1:39.6	How could the creator of all things possibly need something from creation? But
1:44.3	rather the sacrifice or did it as a sign of one's thanksgiving for the whole
1:50.7	of creation or perhaps as a sign of one's repentance. In other words the
1:59.8	sacrifice benefited the sacrifice or not God. And this sacrificial instinct is
2:06.8	quite deep in us even to this day which is why we still want to do something
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