30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) - Matt 22: 34-40

Daily Gospel Exegesis

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

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Matthew 22: 34-40 - 'The commandments of love.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 581 (in 'Jesus and the Law') - The Jewish people and their spiritual leaders viewed Jesus as a rabbi. He often argued within the framework of rabbinical interpretation of the Law. Yet Jesus could not help but offend the teachers of the Law, for he was not content to propose his interpretation alongside theirs but taught the people "as one who had authority, and not as their scribes" (abbreviated).

- 2055 (in 'The Ten Commandments') - When someone asks him, "Which commandment in the Law is the greatest?" Jesus replies: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is thegreatest and first commandment. and a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the prophets." The Decalogue must be interpreted in light of this twofold yet single commandment of love, the fullness of the Law: the commandments: "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

- 2083 (in 'you Shall love the Lord to your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind') - Jesus summed up man's duties toward God in this saying: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This immediately echoes the solemn call: "Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD." God has loved us first. the love of the One God is recalled in the first of the "ten words." the commandments then make explicit the response of love that man is called to give to his God.

- 1824 (in 'Charity') - Fruit of the Spirit and fullness of the Law, charity keeps the commandments of God and his Christ: "Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love."

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to our podcast, Daily Gospel Exegesis, and we look at the gospel
0:16.2	reading for the day's Mass, and we have a go at doing an exegesis of the text.
0:22.2	So we'll get straight into it today.
0:27.0	We're looking at Matthew chapter 22 versus 34 to 40.
0:30.9	So here's today's reading that you would hear at Mass, and then we'll have a go at diving into the text a little bit and exploring what it's teaching us.
0:36.0	When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they got together, and, to
0:42.4	disconcert him, one of them put a question, Master, which is the greatest commandment
0:48.5	of the law?
0:50.5	Jesus said, you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.
0:58.5	This is the greatest and first commandment. The second resembles it. You must love your neighbor as
1:05.5	yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets also so a nice short reading today
1:15.4	let's start by asking the context so jesus has been speaking to the jewish leaders in the temple it's the
1:22.0	last week of his life and the sedgeyses if you know the bit that happened just before this
1:26.9	it was the conversation
1:28.0	with the Sadducees.
1:29.0	They tried to trap him by asking him a question about the resurrection.
1:34.3	And it didn't work.
1:36.2	He was able to avoid the trap and show them that, in fact, the Sadducees are wrong in their
1:40.8	understanding of Scripture.
1:42.7	So their plan, the Sadducees plan, didn't work.
1:45.1	So we get to verse 34 today. When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees,
1:52.3	now there is a distinction here between the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Many of you would know
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