3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) - Luke 1: 1-4, 4: 14-21

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🗓️ 25 January 2025

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Luke 1: 1-4, 4: 14-21 - 'This text is being fulfilled today even as you listen.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 1286 (in 'Confirmation in the Economy of Salvation') - In the Old Testament the prophets announced that the Spirit of the Lord would rest on the hoped-for Messiah for his saving mission (abbreviated)

- 436 (in 'Christ') - It was necessary that the Messiah be anointed by the Spirit of the Lord at once as king and priest, and also as prophet. Jesus fulfilled the messianic hope of Israel in his threefold office of priest, prophet, and king (abbreviated)

- 695 (in 'Symbols of the Holy Spirit') - Its full force can be grasped only in relation to the primary anointing accomplished by the Holy Spirit, that of Jesus. Christ (in Hebrew “messiah”) means the one “anointed” by God’s Spirit. There were several anointed ones of the Lord in the Old Covenant, pre-eminently King David. But Jesus is God’s Anointed in a unique way: the humanity the Son assumed was entirely anointed by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit established him as “Christ" (abbreviated).

- 714 (in 'Expectations of the Messiah and his spirit') - This is why Christ inaugurates the proclamation of the Good News by making his own the following passage from Isaiah: The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

- 544 (in 'The Proclamation of the Kingdom of God') - The kingdom belongs to the poor and lowly, which means those who have accepted it with humble hearts. Jesus is sent to “preach good news to the poor” (abbreviated)

- 2443 (in 'Love for the Poor') - When “the poor have the good news preached to them,” it is the sign of Christ’s presence (abbreviated)

- 1168 (in 'The Liturgical Year') - Beginning with the Easter Triduum as its source of light, the new age of the Resurrection fills the whole liturgical year with its brilliance. Gradually, on either side of this source, the year is transfigured by the liturgy. It really is a “year of the Lord’s favor" (abbreviated)

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the podcast where we do an exegesis of the literal sense of the text.
0:17.3	What did the author mean when they were writing these words originally and how would
0:21.7	they have been understood by the original readers? So we're really diving into the text of
0:26.0	scripture. Today's reading jumps around a bit. So we're reading from Luke chapter 1 versus 1 to 4
0:33.2	and then chapter 4 versus 14 to 21. So there's a bit of text here right from the start of Luke and then chapter 4 versus 14 to 21.
0:37.8	So there's a bit of text here right from the start of Luke
0:40.3	and then some text from chapter 4.
0:43.6	And you'll probably see that the common theme linking both of these
0:46.5	is they're both about the Word of God,
0:49.4	which is appropriate because this reading is usually read
0:52.5	on Word of God Sunday in Year C.
0:55.8	So here's the text you would hear at today's Mass.
0:58.8	Seeing that many others have undertaken to draw up accounts of the events that have taken
1:04.5	place among us, exactly as these were handed down to us by those who, from the outset, were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,
1:15.5	I, in my turn, after carefully going over the whole story from the beginning,
1:20.9	have decided to write an ordered account for you, Theophilus,
1:24.9	so that your excellency may learn how well-founded the teaching is that you
1:30.1	have received. Jesus, with the power of the spirit in him, returned to Galilee, and his
1:36.9	reputation spread throughout the whole countryside. He taught in their synagogues, and everyone
1:42.2	praised him. He came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath
1:49.4	day, as he usually did.
1:52.0	He stood up to read, and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah.
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