Hebrews 7:27 (WEB)
who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
Catechism · 4
The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity
“When his Hour comes, he lives out the unique event of history which does not pass away: Jesus dies, is buried, rises from the dead, and is seated at the right hand of the Father "once for all."” — Catechism footnote: Rom 6:10; Heb 7:27; 9:12; cf. Jn 13:1; 17:1.
The Sacrament of the Eucharist
“When the Church celebrates the Eucharist, she commemorates Christ's Passover, and it is made present the sacrifice Christ offered once for all on the cross remains ever present.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Heb 7:25-27.
“…would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit.” — Catechism footnote: Council of Trent (1562): DS 1740; cf. 1 Cor 11:23; Heb 7:24, 27.
The Sacrament of Holy Orders
“…needing to repeat its sacrifices ceaselessly and being unable to achieve a definitive sanctification, which only the sacrifice of Christ would accomplish.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Heb 5:3; 7:27; 101-4.
Fathers and councils · 8
Ambrose of Milan
““Unspotted,” saith the Scripture, “separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; not having daily need, as the priests have need, to offer a victim first for his own sins, and then for those of the people.” — editor's note: Heb. vii. 26, 27.
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John Chrysostom
“How? ( Ver.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“But now, once, in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.”” — editor's note: ἅ παξ, “once for all.” [The English editor seems to have regarded ἅ παξ as the equivalent for the more emphatic ἐ φάπαξ of vii. 27, ix. 12, x. 10 , both here…
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Of which offering the holy Apostle thus speaks: For this He did once for all when He offered Himself up, securing complete salvation for the human race by the offering of this holy, perfect victim.” — editor's note: Heb. vii. 27.
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Tertullian
Of Martyrs, and Their Intercession on Behalf of Scandalous Offenders. But you go so far as to lavish this “power” upon martyrs withal! No sooner has any one, acting on a preconceived arrangement, put on the…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…of their office, thus subverting the due relation between them; who ought to offer more sacrifices for themselves than for the ignorances of the people; who inevitably fall into one of two errors, either, from their own need of indulgence, being excessively indulgent, and so even teaching, instead of checking,…” — editor's note: Heb. vii. 27; ix. 7.
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Augustine of Hippo
“To the priests it is said, “First offer sacrifices for your own sins, and so for the people.”” — editor's note: Lev. xvi.; Heb. vii. 27.
Read the whole comment“The same is the sacrifice not after the order of Aaron, but after the order of Melchisedec: let him that readeth understand.” — editor's note: Heb. vii. 11, 27.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Catechism §1085.
Cited together in Homilies on the Psalms Homily 2.
Cited together in Catechism §1540.
Cited together in Catechism §1540.
Cited together in Catechism §1540.
Cited together in Catechism §1085.
Cited together in Catechism §1085.
Cited together in Homilies on the Psalms Homily 2.
Cited together in Catechism §1085.
Cited together in Catechism §1364.
Cited together in Catechism §1366.
Cited together in Catechism §1540.