1st Sunday of Advent (Year A) - Matt 24: 37-44
Daily Gospel Exegesis
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🗓️ 26 November 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Matthew 24: 37-44 - 'The Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 673 (In 'The glorious advent of Christ, the hope of Israel') - Since the Ascension Christ’s coming in glory has been imminent, even though “it is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority.” This eschatological coming could be accomplished at any moment, even if both it and the final trial that will precede it are “delayed.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome back to the Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | We're all about giving you the tools to better understand the gospel reading from today's Mass. |
| 0:20.0 | And so today is the very first reading in the liturgical year A. |
| 0:25.3 | So if you're new to the podcast and you're starting at the beginning of the liturgical |
| 0:28.9 | year, welcome. |
| 0:30.5 | Hopefully you learn something new from this podcast and it gives you a new appreciation for |
| 0:34.8 | the Bible. |
| 0:36.0 | And in fact, the reading we have today at the |
| 0:38.3 | lectionary number for this reading is lectionary number one and it goes up to |
| 0:43.0 | something like 700 but today is the first one lectionary reading number one so |
| 0:48.6 | and that's because it's read on the first Sunday of Advent in year a now |
| 0:53.1 | today's reading lectionary number one, it's actually a very difficult one. |
| 0:57.0 | So there are many different theories about what Jesus is talking about in this passage. |
| 1:02.0 | And as we'll see, it's not easy to interpret. |
| 1:05.0 | Some scholars think that Jesus is talking about two different things at the same time. |
| 1:10.0 | Some people think that Jesus starts to talk |
| 1:12.2 | about one thing and then starts to talk about something else. And even within individual phrases, |
| 1:17.7 | it looks like it's not always clear what Jesus is talking about. And there are many different |
| 1:21.8 | interpretations, even amongst Catholic scholars. So there is no one official Catholic interpretation |
| 1:27.3 | of the text we have today. |
| 1:29.1 | Really as a Catholic who's studying the Bible, you need to come to your own conclusions on what you think it's saying, |
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