"Do You Hear What I Hear?"

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

What if we had never heard the Christmas story before? What if we were first-century Jews encountering the story of Jesus' birth for the very first time?

In this week's podcast, Edward Sri takes us back into the world of Jesus, Mary and Joseph and unpacks for us the prophecies, historical context and Jewish hopes that come to fulfillment in Luke's account of Christ's birth (Luke 2:1-7).

Episode Notes

No Ordinary Census
The Bethlehem Prophecy
No Room in the Inn: Where was Jesus born?
- A Stable?
- A Home?
- A Cave?
- "katalyma"
Eucharistic Symbolism
- Bethlehem House of Bread
- The Manger

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:17.0	We are in the fourth week of Advent the home stretch now just a few days before Christmas but are you ready?
0:25.1	Are you ready spiritually to enter into this mystery? I want to help you. I want to help you in
0:30.8	this podcast today to prepare your mind and your heart to deeply enter
0:35.4	into the mystery of Christ's birth and these beautiful stories we encounter from scripture
0:40.3	about the way Jesus entered this world.
0:42.8	Now, sometimes I think we as Christians, however, we can take this story for granted.
0:48.8	I think we're sometimes almost too familiar with these stories.
0:52.0	What do I mean? I mean, you know, the idea of a baby
0:54.2	lad in a manger, a star in the sky, angels appearing to Shepherds, Magi showing up, you know,
1:00.6	many of us we've heard these stories from our childhood year after year after year we sing the story in various Christmas carols we see them in Christmas
1:08.8	pageants we see them in Christmas cards and nativity sets they don't grab our attention because we're so familiar, almost too familiar
1:17.7	with these stories.
1:19.7	But what if you had never heard these stories before? What if you were encountering these stories
1:26.0	from the Gospels for the very first time? Imagine being a Jew in the first century, longing for the coming of the Messiah, and imagine that you
1:35.6	hear these stories about the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.
1:39.8	What would these stories have meant to you?
1:42.3	That's what I want to take a look at here in today's
1:44.4	podcast. I want to bring you right into that world of Luke's Gospel chapter 2
1:48.7	1 through 7. Now this is just one short aspect of the story.
1:53.0	There's a lot more we could look at.
1:54.8	But I want to take a look at Luke's Gospel,
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