Connecting Gospel Stories
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
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🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes we approach the Gospel readings as a sitcom rather than a series. Today, Dr. Sri dives into the Gospel of Matthew to show us how the stories in the Gospel are not isolated events. Dr. Sri teaches us about four key moments in the Gospel of Matthew and explains the historical context behind these stories to grasp the larger story revealed in the life of Jesus.
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The stories we hear in the Gospel are not isolated events. If we truly understand the larger context of these stories, we will marvel at the grand love story God reveals in the life of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:07.0 | I think sometimes we as Catholics approach the mass readings is kind of like a |
| 0:17.8 | sitcom instead of a series. What do I mean by that you know we show up we hear the we hear the gospel reading. We wonder, oh, I wonder what story we're going to hear about Jesus today. |
| 0:26.0 | And we hear about Jesus, you know, calming a storm, or maybe he's healing someone, or he's teaching a parable, or he's having a conversation with Peter, or he's teaching a parable or he's having a conversation with Peter or he's multiplying loaves and I wonder what he's going to do this week and it's just like |
| 0:37.1 | each week is an isolated story that's not how we should view the Gospels though |
| 0:42.2 | because each of these individual gospel reading stories |
| 0:45.5 | we hear Sunday after Sunday, each of them are part of a larger story. They come within a larger |
| 0:51.2 | gospel like this year, they come from the narrative of Matthew's gospel primarily. |
| 0:54.6 | But even more than that, each of these individual stories, these actions, these teachings, |
| 0:59.3 | these healings in the life of Jesus are all part of Jesus's strategic plan. He's building a kingdom. |
| 1:06.4 | He's announcing the kingdom of God and he's very intentional step by step. He does a first thing. |
| 1:11.1 | And then he does a second thing and then the third thing |
| 1:13.5 | flows from what happened before and if you don't know the larger story you're |
| 1:18.7 | gonna miss out a lot on what Jesus is trying to teach us Sunday after Sunday through the gospel. |
| 1:23.7 | So we want to read them in the larger context. |
| 1:26.2 | And I think that's especially true with what we just experienced this last week |
| 1:30.9 | in the Sunday readings. |
| 1:32.2 | I don't know if you caught it, but Jesus started |
| 1:34.4 | taking us on a journey, a journey looking forward toward Jerusalem. It's the first |
| 1:40.0 | time Jesus unveil where his ministry is ultimately leading. He invails for the first time |
| 1:47.0 | the cross. He tells the apostles, he says, now I need to go to Jerusalem and when I get to Jerusalem I'm going to be handed over to the chief |
| 1:55.8 | priests and scribes and I'm going to be killed. |
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