What if every priest and every Catholic read this passage from Hebrews before Mass? This is what Mass is about:<\/span><\/p>\nBut what you have come to is Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem where the millions of angels have gathered for the festival, with the whole Church in which everyone is a \u2018first-born son\u2019 and a citizen of heaven. You have come to God himself, the supreme Judge, and been placed with spirits of the saints who have been made perfect; and to Jesus, the mediator who brings a new covenant and a blood for purification which pleads more insistently than Abel\u2019s. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What if every priest and every Catholic read this passage from Hebrews before Mass? This is what Mass is about: But what you have come to is Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem where the millions of angels have gathered for the festival, with the whole Church in which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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