SESSION TWO

Slide 34: Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a — “No, you have approached Mount Zion, …“ — audio

Slide 34

Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a

A reading from the Letter of the Hebrews

Brothers and sisters: You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that those who heard begged that no message be addressed to them.

No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect, and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.

The word of the Lord