In the prayer service at Washington Church, as the pope makes his US tour, a woman just read from the letter to the Hebrews on the great person & work of Jesus as our High Priest.
And I can’t help but think did not this scene supposedly done in worship to Jesus in fact misrepresent him. The golden symbols of candles and altars, the elevation of the pope as Vicar of Christ, the arrayed bishop apparel, the reverence of the altar of the transubstantiated Eucharist...
Is not all this shadows and substitutions for the Substance and Substitute?
It's as if by reading Hebrews they rebuked the very things they stood for and performed.
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