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Hebrews 11:1–2, 8–19 proclaims faith that leans on God beyond sight. This passage walks with Abraham and Sarah in trust.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Abraham obeys when called. He goes out not knowing. He dwells in tents. He waits for the city with foundations. Sarah conceives by promise. From one as good as dead comes a people as many as the stars. They confess they are strangers and exiles. They desire a better homeland. God is not ashamed to be called their God. He has prepared a city. Abraham offers Isaac in readiness. He believes God can raise the dead. The Lord provides. This reading invites steady obedience and quiet hope. Leave what God asks you to leave. Travel light. Keep your eyes on the promise. Practice patience in family burdens. Encourage a friend who waits. Offer today’s work with trust. Pray for a pilgrim heart and the grace to finish in faith.

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00:00A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Hebrews chapter 11, verses 1-2, 8-19.
00:06Brothers and sisters, faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not
00:11seen. Because of it the ancients were well attested. By faith Abraham obeyed when he was
00:17called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance, he went out, not knowing where
00:23he was to go, by faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country, dwelling
00:28in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise, for he was looking forward to the city
00:33with foundations, whose architect and maker is God. By faith he received power to generate,
00:39even though he was past the normal age, and Sarah herself was sterile, for he thought that the one
00:44who had made the promise was trustworthy. So it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good
00:50as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and as countless as the sands on the
00:56seashore. All these died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised, but saw it and
01:03greeted it from afar, and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth, for those who
01:09speak thus show that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of the land from which
01:14they had come, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better homeland,
01:20a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for
01:25them. By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the
01:31promises was ready to offer his only son, of whom it was said, Through Isaac descendants shall bear
01:36your name. He reasoned that God was able to raise even from the dead, and he received Isaac back as a
01:43symbol.
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