16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) - Matt 13: 24-43

Daily Gospel Exegesis

Logical Bible Study

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

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Matthew 13: 24-43 - 'Let them both grow till the harvest.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 827 (in 'The Church is Holy') - "Christ, 'holy, innocent, and undefiled,' knew nothing of sin, but came only to expiate the sins of the people. the Church, however, clasping sinners to her bosom, at once holy and always in need of purification, follows constantly the path of penance and renewal." All members of the Church, including her ministers, must acknowledge that they are sinners. In everyone, the weeds of sin will still be mixed with the good wheat of the Gospel until the end of time. Hence the Church gathers sinners already caught up in Christ's salvation but still on the way to holiness:

The Church is therefore holy, though having sinners in her midst, because she herself has no other life but the life of grace. If they live her life, her members are sanctified; if they move away from her life, they fall into sins and disorders that prevent the radiation of her sanctity. This is why she suffers and does penance for those offenses, of the means of salvation" has been deposited. It is in her that "by the grace of God we acquire holiness."

- 1034 (in 'Hell') - Jesus often speaks of "Gehenna" of "the unquenchable fire" reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost. Jesus solemnly proclaims that he "will send his angels, and they will gather . . . all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire," and that he will pronounce the condemnation: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!"

- 333 (in 'Christ with all his angels') - They will be present at Christ's return, which they will announce, to serve at his Judgement (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Logical Bible Study podcast, where we look at the gospel reading
0:16.4	from the mass of today and we try to do an exegesis on the text, so really letting the text
0:21.4	speak on its own terms.
0:23.9	Today, for this Sunday reading, we have another really, really long section of text, just
0:28.3	like we had last week.
0:30.1	And so, once again, what I want to do is read out these verses.
0:33.5	There's 20 verses to read today.
0:35.6	Just offer some general thoughts, and then I'll point you
0:38.6	towards other places in the podcast where we're going to do a more in-depth exegesis on this
0:45.2	exact text. So today we're looking at Matthew chapter 13 versus 24 to 43. So Matthew chapter 13
0:52.8	is full of all sorts of parables. And today we have quite a few
0:56.9	parables in this one reading that the lectionary has put together. And there's one quite serious
1:04.4	parable here in particular, one that we don't often talk about. So Matthew 13 versus 24 to 43. Jesus put another parable before the crowds.
1:15.8	The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everybody
1:21.9	was asleep, his enemy came, sowed darnal among all the wheat, and made off. When the new wheat sprouted and
1:30.8	ripened, the darnel appeared as well. The owner's servants went to him and said, Sir, was it not
1:37.4	good seed that you sowed in your field? If so, where does the darnel come from? Some enemy has done this, he answered. And the servant said,
1:47.5	Do you want us to go and weed it out? But he said, no, because when you weed out the darnel,
1:53.8	you might pull up the wheat with it. Let them both grow till the harvest, and at harvest time,
2:00.7	I shall say to the reapers,
2:02.8	first collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burnt, then gather the wheat into my barn.
2:10.2	He put another parable before them.
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