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# Daily Readings Reflection for 1/26/11

Jan 26, 2011 9:56:38 AM  |  by [Lisa M. Hendey](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/lisa-m-hendey)

Scripture: Lectionary 319. Hebrews 10:11-18. Psalm 110:1.2.3.4. Mark  
 4:1-20

[Today's Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab)

Cardinal Vanhoye, S.J. presented a structured presentation for the Epistle  
 to the Hebrews that shows us the great skill of the anonymous writer of  
 this work by an Alexandrian convert to Christianity. This long essay is  
 unified, coherent, clear, and emphatic on its theology of the  
 priest-messiah Jesus Christ. The reading we have been listening to for a  
 few weeks will come to an end this week. These last four chapters have  
 great value for our own spiritual development through our patient  
 endurance, our being faithful to sharing our faith in a community, and  
 through our baptismal gifts of faith, hope, and love. We continue to be  
 instructed in chapter ten about the uniqueness of Jesus' sacrificial  
 priesthood that cuts across all human history and its times and is  
 effective for salvation for everyone. It has, like death, been a once and  
 for all experience of Jesus who now is at the right hand of God as our  
 mediator and highpriest.

We are encouraged again and again to be faithful to our new covenantal  
 relationship to God through the sacrifice of Jesus and by imitating his  
 doing the will of the Father. We are to be patient pilgrims on a journey of  
 faith to the heavenly courts of God where Jesus is now our higpriest and  
 messiah.

We return to Psalm 110, a messianic Psalm that was explained already by our  
 author. He now returns to a verse that emphasizes the victory of Jesus as  
 king-messiah over his enemies which we now interpret as death, sin, and  
 Evil Personified in the prince of darkness, the devil. The verse contained  
 in our passage is:"Until I make thine enemies thy footstool" (Verse 1b).  
 This is a metaphor for the decisive defeat of enemies, originating in the  
 custom of the victor placing his foot upon the neck of the conquered  
 general or king (Joshua 10:24).

We are nourished by our reading of this essay not only since it is a New  
 Testament writing but also because it carefully goes to the Septuagint or  
 Greek translation of the Hebrew psalms and prophets and Torah that is  
 chosen to illustrate the identity of Jesus as our highpriest and messiah.  
 Thus we see that the unity of reading both the New Testament and the Old  
 Testament is part of the Christian Scripture and its long tradition  
 emphasized by the earliest theologians and fathers and mothers of the  
 Church. Amen.

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