{"id":10199,"date":"2024-03-20T15:04:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=10199"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:04:45","slug":"hidden-depths-of-the-mass-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/hidden-depths-of-the-mass-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Depths of the Mass #33"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>I am Not Worthy to Receive You<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the Sign of Peace, we come to the Lamb of God.&nbsp; The words said by the priest, \u201cBehold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world,\u201d come directly from John 1:29.&nbsp; John the Baptist proclaims Jesus to be \u201cThe Lamb of God.\u201d&nbsp; He is the new Passover lamb.&nbsp; In sacrificing his life for us, He becomes the lamb by which our sins are forgiven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We respond, \u201cLord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.\u201d&nbsp; The Catholic Church does not make these words up.&nbsp; In this case, the words we say come from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=matthew+8%3A8&amp;version=NABRE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Matthew 8:8<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+7%3A6-7&amp;version=NABRE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luke 7:6-7<\/a>.&nbsp; Here we stand risen, made worthy by the sacrifice of Jesus.&nbsp; We know Jesus can heal us of our sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The previous articles in this series can be found on my website at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/renewaloffaith.org\/bulletin-series-on-the-mass-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/renewaloffaith.org\/bulletin-series-on-the-mass-2023\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Not Worthy to Receive You Following the Sign of Peace, we come to the Lamb of God.&nbsp; The words said by the priest, \u201cBehold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world,\u201d come directly from John 1:29.&nbsp; John the Baptist proclaims Jesus to be \u201cThe Lamb of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/hidden-depths-of-the-mass-33\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Hidden Depths of the Mass #33&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[733],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMTPk-2Ev","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10200,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10199\/revisions\/10200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}