Friday, February 27, 2009

Heb 4, 5-6 They shall not enter into my rest

(Heb 4, 5-6) They shall not enter into my rest
[5] and again, in the previously mentioned place, "They shall not enter into my rest." [6] Therefore, since it remains that some will enter into it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,
(CCC 2175) Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath. In Christ's Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man's eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law prepared for the mystery of Christ, and what was done there prefigured some aspects of Christ (Cf. 1 Cor 10:11): Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope, no longer keeping the sabbath, but the Lord's Day, in which our life is blessed by him and by his death (St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Magn. 9, 1: SCh 10, 88).

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