23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) - Matt 18: 15-20

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🗓️ 9 September 2023

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Matthew 18: 15-20 - 'If your brother listens to you, you have won back your brother.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2472 (in 'To Bear Witness to the Truth') - The duty of Christians to take part in the life of the Church impels them to act as witnesses of the Gospel and of the obligations that flow from it. This witness is a transmission of the faith in words and deeds. Witness is an act of justice that establishes the truth or makes it known.

- 553 (in 'The Keys of the Kingdom') - The power to "bind and loose" connotes the authority to absolve sins, to pronounce doctrinal judgements, and to make disciplinary decisions in the Church. Jesus entrusted this authority to the Church through the ministry of the apostles and in particular through the ministry of Peter, the only one to whom he specifically entrusted the keys of the kingdom (abbreviated).

- 1444 (in 'Reconciliation with the Church') - In imparting to his apostles his own power to forgive sins the Lord also gives them the authority to reconcile sinners with the Church. This ecclesial dimension of their task is expressed most notably in Christ's solemn words to Simon Peter: "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." "The office of binding and loosing which was given to Peter was also assigned to the college of the apostles united to its head."

- 1088 (is 'Present in the earthly liturgy') - He is present in his word since it is he himself who speaks when the holy Scriptures are read in the Church. Lastly, he is present when the Church prays and sings, for he has promised 'where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them" (abbreviated).

- 1373 (in 'The Presence of Christ by the power of his word and the Holy Spirit') - "Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us," is present in many ways to his Church: in his word, in his Church's prayer, "where two or three are gathered in my name," in the poor, the sick, and the imprisoned (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to daily gospel exegesis, and we're all about exactly what it sounds like.
0:17.1	We do an exegesis of the Bible every single day.
0:20.6	We have a look at the gospel from
0:21.9	today's Mass and we really dive into the text and see what it means on the most literal level.
0:26.7	What is it saying in the very words it uses taking into account the social and cultural context?
0:33.1	So really helping you understand the Bible in a bit more of an academic, rigorous way.
0:39.9	Now, today's reading is one of those ones that I think you'll find really fascinating when
0:43.8	we dive into it in a really good exegetical way.
0:48.3	This is one of these passages where I was making new connections as I was reading and
0:53.5	researching for it and realizing a whole
0:55.4	lot of new things about this passage that are really quite fascinating when you dive into the text
1:01.1	and I'm sure by the end of this episode you would have learned something new. There is a lot of
1:05.5	really interesting stuff going on in this passage. So I believe this is one of these
1:10.1	passages where using exegesis properly
1:14.5	will reveal some really interesting things. Tell us a lot about Jesus, tell us a lot about
1:19.9	his view of the church, and it says a lot about the way things could be and should be, I would
1:26.6	say. So I think we're getting into a really
1:29.0	interesting episode today, but see what you think. So we're looking at Matthew chapter 18
1:34.1	versus 15 to 20. Jesus said to his disciples, if your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two
1:46.6	selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two
1:54.4	others along with you. The evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain any charge. But if he refuses to listen to
2:04.6	these, report it to the community. And if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a
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