Romans 15:16 (WEB)
that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Catechism · 1
“In the New Testament the word "liturgy" refers not only to the celebration of divine worship but also to the proclamation of the Gospel and to active charity.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 1:23; Acts 13:2; Rom 15:16, 27; 2 Cor 9:12; Phil 2:14-17, 25, 30.
Fathers and councils · 6
Justin Martyr
“Now God receives sacrifices from no one, except through His priests.” — editor's note: [Isa. lxvi. 21; Rom. xv. 15, 16, 17 (Greek); 1 Pet. ii. 9.]
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Take counsel, therefore, and see that this may be more safely managed with moderation, so that the presbyters also, who there offer with the confessors, may one by one take turns with the deacons individually; because, by thus changing the persons and varying the people that come together, suspicion is diminished.” — editor's note: “Qui illic apud confessores offerunt,” scil. “the oblation” (προσφορὰ, Rom. xv. 16), i.e., “who celebrate the Eucharist.”
Read the whole comment“…persevere still in the same course, I shall use that power of admonition which the Lord bids me use; so that they may meanwhile be withheld from offering, and have to plead their cause both before me and before the confessors themselves and before the whole people, when, with God’s permission, we begin to be…” — editor's note: [Celebrating the Lord’s Supper; Rom. xv. 16 (Greek) compared with Mal. i. 11, texts which seem greatly to have influenced the language of the early Church.]
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Augustine of Hippo
“Truly those now see to whom it was not told of Him, and those who have not heard understand.” — editor's note: Rom. xv. 16, 21.
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Basil the Great
“The creature is sanctified; it is the Spirit that sanctifies.” — editor's note: Rom. xv. 16.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And these two matters do not divide the Substance, as I understand it, but rather are divisions within the Substance.” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7–15, cxlii., Isa. xi. 1–3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii. 6, Wisd. i. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14, 15, Acts…
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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in Epistles Letter 9.
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Cited together in Catechism §1070.
Cited together in Letters Letter 159.
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Cited together in Catechism §1070.
Cited together in Catechism §1070.
Cited together in Letters Letter 159.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 116.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 9.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 9.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 9.
Cited together in Catechism §1070.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 9.
Cited together in Catechism §1070.