In order to understand holy orders, we must take a journey back into the Old Testament. Most think of the priesthood of the Old Testament strictly in terms of the tribe of Levi. However ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

The word “offer[ing]” appears 32 times in Hebrews — first regarding the Old Testament priests (5:1, 3; 8:3; 9:6-7), then moving on to the climactic scene in heaven of Jesus offering his ...