Saturday, August 10, 2019
Liturgical Season: 
VI The Season of Transfiguration
Special Significance: 
St. Lawrence

Heb 8:7-13

Old and New Covenants.* 7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second one. 8But he finds fault with them and says:*

“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord,g

when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

9It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers

the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt;

for they did not stand by my covenant

and I ignored them, says the Lord.

10But this is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel

after those days, says the Lord:

I will put my laws in their minds

and I will write them upon their hearts.

I will be their God,

and they shall be my people.h

11And they shall not teach, each one his fellow citizen

and kinsman, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’

for all shall know me,

from least to greatest.

12For I will forgive their evildoing

and remember their sins no more.”

13* i When he speaks of a “new” covenant, he declares the first one obsolete. And what has become obsolete and has grown old is close to disappearing.

Jn 12:44-50

Recapitulation. 44Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me believes not only in me but also in the one who sent me,j 45and whoever sees me sees the one who sent me.k 46I came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness.l 47And if anyone hears my words and does not observe them, I do not condemn him, for I did not come to condemn the world but to save the world.m 48Whoever rejects me and does not accept my words has something to judge him: the word that I spoke, it will condemn him on the last day,n 49because I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak.o 50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So what I say, I say as the Father told me.”