Scriptural Study of the Mass

Pre-History Homework

Gen 1:3-5    God speaks and light is created.
Mt 8:5-10God speaks and a servant is healed.
Mt 26:26-28God speaks and the Eucharist is confected
 
Gen 2:1-3God rested on the seventh day.
Ex 16:11-30God provided enough manna for the seventh day of rest.
Ex 20:8-11Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy.
Ex 22:29-30Redeem your first born on the eighth day.
Lev 12:1-3Circumcise your sons on the eighth day.
Mk 2:27-28The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.
Lk 24:1-9The Lord rose on the first day of the week.
Act 20:7The Christians met on the first day to break the bread.
Rev 1:10John had a revelation of Jesus on the Lord’s day, the first day.
 
Gen 2:8-9, 16-17God planted the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life in Eden.
Rev 2:7The righteous will be given the Tree of Life.
Rev 22:1-3The Tree of Life grows in the new Jerusalem.
1 Cor 11:26-29We must receive the Body of the Lord worthily.
 
Gen 3:1-5The serpent told Eve she would be like God.
Jn 10:33-36Jesus quotes the scripture: You are gods.
Jn 15:14-17Jesus calls us friends because he has revealed everything to us.
Eph 4:11-16We are called to become members of Christ’s Body, part of God’s life.
Jn 9:14-16Jesus opens the eyes of the blind, unlike the opening of Adam and Eve’s eyes.
 
Gen 3:14-15The promise of salvation even after the original sin.
 
Gen 4:1-5The offerings of Cain and Abel.
Ex 23:19Give the first fruits.
Mt 5:23-24Before you offer your gift, be reconciled.
 
Gen 4:10Abel’s blood cries out.
Ex 12:21-24Put the blood of your Passover lamb on your doorposts.
Ex 24:4-8Moses consecrated the altar and the people with blood.
Ps 50:8-13The Lord does not drink the blood of bulls or goats.
Is 1:10-18Rather than burnt offerings, offer a holy life.
Mt 23:29-36The Pharisees shed the blood of prophets; righteous blood of Abel must be answered.
Mt 26:26-29Jesus’ blood will be poured out for the forgiveness of sins in the covenant.
Heb 9:11-28Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross perfects the Old Testament animal sacrifice.
Heb 12:22-25The new covenant speaks more eloquently than the blood of Abel.
Rev 5:6-10The Lamb that was slain now makes us a Kingdom of priests.
 
Gen 8:18--9:17Noah offers a sacrifice after the flood; life blood is sacred; the rainbow is the sign of the covenant.
Jonah 2:1-11Jonah prayed and was released from the whale.
Mt 24:36-42The people were not ready for the flood.
1 Pe 3:18-22The salvation of Noah prefigures baptism.
Rev 4:1-3The Lord appears with the rainbow as a sign of the covenant.
 
Gen 11:1-9The people of Babel build a tower to their own name.
Ps 115:1Not to us, but to your name give glory.
Jn 8:54I do not glorify myself; the Father glorifies me.
Jn 17:1-7Father, glorify me.
Act 2:1-12At Pentecost, they heard the apostles in many languages.