27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) - Luke 17: 5-10

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🗓️ 1 October 2022

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Luke 17: 5-10 - 'Say, 'We are merely servants.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 162 (In 'Perseverance in Faith) - Faith is an entirely free gift that God makes to man. We can lose this priceless gift, as St. Paul indicated to St. Timothy: “Wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith.” To live, grow, and persevere in the faith until the end we must nourish it with the word of God; we must beg the Lord to increase our faith; it must be “working through charity,” abounding in hope, and rooted in the faith of the Church.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome again to the podcast. Today, the reading you are here at Mass that we're going to dive into is one that you might not have heard before, or perhaps you haven't heard for a while. It's
0:21.5	sort of in this part of Luke that sometimes gets a bit neglected. So we'll read today's reading
0:27.2	and then we'll have a go at doing a verse-by-verse exegesis of it to try and help you understand
0:31.8	what the author was trying to communicate to the original audience. So Luke chapter 17 verses 5 to 10. The apostles said to the
0:41.9	Lord, increase our faith. The Lord replied, were your faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to
0:49.9	this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea, and would obey you?
0:56.3	Which of you, with a servant ploughing or minding sheep, would say to him when he returned
1:02.0	from the fields, come and have your meal immediately? Would he not be more likely to say,
1:08.6	get my supper laid, make yourself tidy, and wait on me while I eat and drink.
1:15.5	You can eat and drink yourself afterwards.
1:18.9	Must he be grateful to the servant for doing what he was told?
1:22.9	So with you, when you have done all you have been told to do, say, we are merely servants. We have done
1:30.3	no more than our duty. So that's our reading for today, an interesting section here where
1:36.9	Jesus is telling the apostles about the importance of doing their duty as the leaders of the church.
1:43.0	So we want to start by thinking about the context.
1:45.2	So Jesus is moving from Galilee. He's getting closer to Judea for the final phase of his
1:50.4	ministry. And along the way, he's doing ministry and speaking to the crowds. And he's just been
1:56.3	speaking to the apostles in particular. So keep in mind the audience here. He's speaking primarily to the 12 apostles. He's been speaking to the apostles in particular. So keep in mind the audience here. He's speaking primarily to the
2:02.3	12 apostles. He's been speaking to them about how they need to treat other members of the church well.
2:08.8	Particularly he's been highlighting that they need to forgive other members of the church and also,
2:13.5	on the other hand, they need to avoid scandal. So those are things he's mentioned already now in verse five
2:19.8	the apostle said to the lord increase our faith so it looks like the apostles here are pretty
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