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Treasures of Our Faith with Deacon Richard Vehige · Mar 28, 2026 · 6m

On Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent our Church invites us to first read and reflect on a passage from the letter to the Hebrews (8;1-13) entitled "The priesthood of Christ in the New Covenant". Our treasure, which follows, is from a homily by Saint Gregory Nazianzen, bishop.

Saint Gregory of Nazianzen, often called Gregory the "theologian", was an early Roman Christian theologian and prelate who served as Archbishop of Constantinople from 380 to 381. He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan…