– External religious manifestation of the community, gathered according to established norms:
Ex 12:16 : On the first day, as on the seventh, you will have a holy assembly.
– In the AT worship revolves around the Word of God:
2Ch 34:30 : And he read to them in full from the Book of the Covenant, found in the Temple of the Lord.
Br 1,14 : Be aware of this book that we have sent you so that you can read it publicly in the temple.
– With prayers at different times of the day.
Ps 54:18 : Evening, morning and noon I will wail and groan; and he will hear my voice.
Wis 16,28 : So that it would be known that it is necessary to anticipate the sun to thank you.
Dan 6:11 : Three times a day, kneeling as before, he continued to pray and praise God.
– With animal sacrifices in holocausts:
Gen 8:20 : And he offered them as a burnt offering to the Lord on the altar.
Gen 12:8 : Abram built an altar there to the Lord, and invoked his name.
Josh 18: 1 : The whole assembly of the children of Israel gathered in Shiloh.
– With the cult of obedience:
Gen 22:18 : All the nations of the earth will want to be blessed like her, because you have obeyed my voice.
1Sm 15:22 : Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience?
– God prefers mercy to sacrifice:
Ps 49,8-15 : I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, for your burnt offerings are always before me.
Ps 50,18-21 : You are not satisfied with ritual sacrifices; and if I offered you a sacrifice, you would not accept it.
Is 1,1-11 : I have had enough of burnt offerings of lambs.
Is 58,4-11 : It is not by fasting that you will make your voice reach up there.
Jr 7,1-15 : If you do not spread innocent blood in this place and do not run, to your disgrace.
Am 5,21 : I hate your feasts; they disgust me; I feel no pleasure in your cults.
– In the NT also the Christian community offers prayers to God through Jesus Christ and in assembly:
Lc 1,10 : All the people were outside, at the time of offering the incense.
Lk 4:16 : He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, as was his custom, and stood up to read.
Acts 3:1 : Peter and John were going up to the temple to pray at the ninth hour.
Acts 13:14-15 : There they entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and sat down.
Acts 15:21 : It has its preachers in every city, since it is read in the synagogues every Saturday.
Gal 1:13 : Surely you have heard of how I once lived in Judaism.
Gal 2:15 : We, Jews by birth, not sinners from among the heathen.
Heb 10:25 : Let us not forsake our assembly, as some are in the habit of doing.
– Jesus inaugurates the worship of the Father in spirit and in truth:
Jn 4,20-26 : Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that it is in Jerusalem that one must worship.
Phil 3 :3 : For we are the truly circumcised, who worship God by the Spirit of God.
– In which He is the new temple:
Jn 2,19-20 : Jesus answered them: “I destroyed this temple for you, and I will rebuild it in three days”.
– The High Priest:
Heb 4:14 : So we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God.
Heb 5:10 : For God proclaimed him a priest after the order of Melchizedek.
– And the victim:
Jn 3,14-15 : As Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.
Jo 6,51.55 : And the bread, which I will give, is my flesh for the salvation of the world.
Jn 10:10 , 11, 17-18 : I came so that the sheep may have life and that they may have it in abundance.
Eph 5:1-2 : He gave himself up to God for us, an offering and a sacrifice of a pleasing odor.
– See SACRIFICE, LAW, WORSHIP.
