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<\/p>\nThis post isn’t going to be a thoroughly formed article, but I need to get over my writer’s block and get into the habit of writing again…<\/p>\n
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I didn’t go to Divine Liturgy this week and instead went to a Roman Mass. During the Readings, something jumped out at me.\u00a0The passage in question was the First Reading from Isaiah:<\/p>\n
Thus says the LORD:<\/span> It does sound like the Prophet Isaiah is foretelling a situation whereby the Children of Israel\u00a0will go out to the nations to proclaim the Lord’s\u00a0glory and, as a result, bring these Gentiles into relationship with the God of Abraham. Christians obviously find a fulfillment of this in the mission of the Church.<\/p>\n I haven’t done much research on it, but the bit which peaked my interest was the final sentence. The language is a little<\/em> ambiguous but Isaiah appears to say\u00a0that, of those\u00a0Gentiles who believe, the Lord will choose a subset\u00a0to be “priests and levites”<\/span>, Gentile priests!\u00a0This fits very well with the Coptic, Catholic and Orthodox Church’s understanding that, although like Israel we have a priesthood of all believers (Exodus 19:6<\/a>), some members of that people are set aside for ministerial priesthood…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post isn’t going to be a thoroughly formed article, but I need to get over my writer’s block and get into the habit of writing again… I didn’t go to Divine Liturgy this week and instead went to a Roman Mass. During the Readings, something jumped out at me.\u00a0The passage in question was the First Reading from Isaiah: Thus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2969,3794,402,288,3793,223,119,396,1038],"class_list":["post-61962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","tag-featured","tag-first-reading","tag-isaiah","tag-lectionary","tag-levite","tag-mass","tag-priest","tag-priesthood","tag-prophecy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-25-at-8.30.52-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61967,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61962\/revisions\/61967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n I know their works and their thoughts,<\/span>
\n and I come to gather nations of every language;<\/span>
\n they shall come and see my glory.<\/span>
\n I will set a sign among them;<\/span>
\n from them I will send fugitives to the nations…<\/span>
\n that have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory;<\/span>
\n and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations.<\/span>
\n They shall bring all your brothers and sisters from all the nations<\/span>
\n as an offering to the LORD…<\/span>
\n to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, says the LORD,<\/span>
\n just as the Israelites bring their offering<\/span>
\n to the house of the LORD in clean vessels.<\/span>
\n Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the LORD.<\/span><\/span>
\n – Isaiah 66:18-21<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n