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  N.B “Today ends the forty day fast before Pascha that runs from the Monday after Cheesefare Sunday until the day before Lazarus Saturday. In origin this fast seems to be an imitation of the forty-day fast Jesus made after his baptism in the Jordan. In Egypt, it prepared the catechumens for the reception of […]

  Isaiah 65:8-16 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 8 Thus says the Lord: “As the wine is found in the cluster,     and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,     for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants’ sake,     and not destroy them all. 9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,     and from […]

  Isaiah 58:1-11 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition False and True Worship 58 “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression,     to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily,     and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did […]

  Isaiah 49:6-10 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 6 he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant     to raise up the tribes of Jacob     and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations,     that my salvation may reach to the end of […]

  Isaiah 48:17-49:4 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 17 Thus says the Lord,     your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God,     who teaches you to profit,     who leads you in the way you should go. 18 O that you had hearkened to my commandments!     Then your peace would have been like a river,     and your […]

  Hebrews 9:11-14 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come,[a] then through the greater and more perfect tent[b] (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking[c] not the blood of goats and calves but […]

  Hebrews 9:24-28 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 24 For Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the Holy Place yearly […]

  Isaiah 45:11-17 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 11 Thus says the Lord,     the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Will you question me[a] about my children,     or command me concerning the work of my hands? 12 I made the earth,     and created man upon it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens,     and I commanded […]

  Isaiah 42:5-16 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 5 Thus says God, the Lord,     who created the heavens and stretched them out,     who spread forth the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it     and spirit to those who walk in it: 6 “I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, […]