3rd Sunday of Advent (Year C) - Luke 3: 10-20

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🗓️ 14 December 2024

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Luke 3: 10-18 - 'Someone is coming who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 535 (in 'The Baptism of Jesus') - Jesus' public life begins with his baptism by John in the Jordan. John preaches "a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins". A crowd of sinners - tax collectors and soldiers, Pharisees and Sadducees, and prostitutes - come to be baptized by him (abbreviated).

- 2447 (in 'Love for the Poor') - The works of mercy are charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily necessities. Instructing, advising, consoling, comforting are spiritual works of mercy, as are forgiving and bearing wrongs patiently. the corporal works of mercy consist especially in feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, and burying the dead. Among all these, giving alms to the poor is one of the chief witnesses to fraternal charity: it is also a work of justice pleasing to God.

- 696 (in 'Symbols of the Holy Spirit') - John the Baptist, who goes "before [the Lord] in the spirit and power of Elijah," proclaims Christ as the one who "will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." Jesus will say of the Spirit: "I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled!" (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. The goal of this podcast is to help you understand the
0:16.2	literal sense of scripture. In accordance with the teaching of the church, we always need to start with
0:21.4	the literal sense. What did it mean in its original context? So we have a longer one to look at today,
0:26.4	so we'll get straight into it. Luke chapter 3, verses 10 to 18. And we're also going to include
0:33.0	verses 19 and 20 to finish off today's reading. When all the people asked John, what must we do?
0:41.4	He answered, if anyone has two tunics, he must share with the man who has none, and the one
0:48.3	with something to eat must do the same.
0:51.9	There were tax collectors too who came for baptism and these said to him,
0:57.0	Master, what must we do? He said to them, exact no more than your rate. Some soldiers asked him in their turn. What about us? What must we do? He said to them, no intimidation, no extortion.
1:14.1	Be content with your pay.
1:16.6	A feeling of expectancy had grown among the people, who were beginning to think that John
1:21.4	might be the Christ.
1:23.1	So John declared before them all.
1:26.2	I baptize you with water, but someone is coming, someone who is more
1:30.5	powerful than I am, and I am not fit to undo the strap of his sandals.
1:35.3	He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
1:39.4	His winnowing fan is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn,
1:45.6	but the chaff he will burn in a fire that will never go out.
1:50.8	As well as this, there were many other things he said to exhort the people and to announce
1:55.6	the good news to them. But Herod the Tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodius, his brother's wife,
2:03.8	and for all the evil things that Herod had done, added this to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
2:13.1	So, what's the context here?
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