We Need to Learn to Sacrifice Ourselves

Making Friends With The Lord Jesus · May 22, 2024 · 12m

Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the Eternal High Priest. He is the Priest because He sacrificed Himself in Calvary for our salvation and in obedience to His Father. In the Old Testament, priests sacrificed something to God. In the New Order, Jesus is both the Priest and the Victim, the one who offers sacrifice and the one who is offered in sacrifice. The Priest and the Victim are the same. Since we endeavor to imitate Christ as Priest we need to get used to adopting the attitude of having ourselves sacrificed for God's glory. In being faithful to our…