Feast of Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr - John 12: 24-26

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

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John 12: 24-26 - 'If a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it yields a rich harvest.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2731 (in 'Facing Difficulties in Prayer') - Another difficulty, especially for those who sincerely want to pray, is dryness. Dryness belongs to contemplative prayer when the heart is separated from God, with no taste for thoughts, memories, and feelings, even spiritual ones. This is the moment of sheer faith clinging faithfully to Jesus in his agony and in his tomb. "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if dies, it bears much fruit." If dryness is due to the lack of roots, because the word has fallen on rocky soil, the battle requires conversion.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to Logical Bible Study. This is the podcast that's dedicated purely to doing Bible exegesis. We don't talk about what's going on in the world. We don't look at other
0:22.2	aspects of church discipline. We go straight into the Bible. This is a podcast that's all about
0:29.1	helping you understand the very text of the Bible. And that's called doing an exegesis of the
0:33.5	text. We're looking at the literal sense of the text. What does it mean in its original context?
0:38.5	And hopefully, if we do that correctly, that will help us understand God's word better and God's
0:44.3	will for our lives better. And certainly, your feedback has indicated that this podcast has
0:50.8	really helped you understand God's word in a deeper way. So let's get into
0:55.1	today's text. We're looking at John chapter 12 versus 24 to 26. Jesus said to his disciples,
1:04.9	I tell you most solemnly, unless a wheat grain falls on the ground and dies, it remains only a single grain. But if it dies,
1:15.0	it yields a rich harvest. Anyone who loves his life loses it. Anyone who hates his life in this world
1:23.2	will keep it for the eternal life. If a man serves me, he must follow me.
1:30.9	Wherever I am, my servant will be there too.
1:34.7	If anyone serves me, my father will honor him.
1:40.6	So that's our reading today.
1:42.5	It's a short one, but it's a fairly packed one. The context here is
1:46.3	quite important. If you read just before this in verse 23, Jesus has just said to the disciples,
1:52.7	The hour has come for the son of man to be glorified. So that's what he said, and now he goes
1:58.2	straight into what we're here today. So starting at verse 24,
2:01.6	I tell you most solemnly, or some translations might say, truly, truly, I say unto you. And now he's
2:08.6	going to give a mini parable, which his audience would have been quite familiar with on the most
2:15.2	basic level, but he's going to sort of, he wants them to draw
2:18.6	a spiritual application from this image, which is usually the case with most parables. So here's the
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