Feast of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs - Matt 2: 13-18

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🗓️ 27 December 2024

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Matthew 2: 13-18 - 'The massacre of the innocents.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 530 (in 'The Mysteries of Jesus' Infancy') - The flight into Egypt and the massacre of the innocents make manifest the opposition of darkness to the light: “He came to his own home, and his own people received him not.” Christ’s whole life was lived under the sign of persecution. His own share it with him. Jesus’ departure from Egypt recalls the exodus and presents him as the definitive liberator of God’s people.

- 333 (in 'Christ with all his angels') - From the Incarnation to the Ascension, the life of the Word incarnate is surrounded by the adoration and service of angels. When God “brings the firstborn into the world, he says: ‘Let all God’s angels worship him.’” Their song of praise at the birth of Christ has not ceased resounding in the Church’s praise: “Glory to God in the highest!” They protect Jesus in his infancy, serve him in the desert, strengthen him in his agony in the garden, when he could have been saved by them from the hands of his enemies as Israel had been (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome back to Daily Gospel Exegesis, the podcast produced by Logical Bible Study.
0:17.4	We're all about helping you understand the Bible better as Catholics, and in particular,
0:21.6	we're focusing on the literal sense of scripture. What did the gospel reading mean in its
0:26.7	original context? What do the words mean? What are the various social and linguistic factors that
0:32.2	we need to take into account when we look at this text? So we're really studying the Bible as a text.
0:37.2	We're looking at the
0:37.9	literal sense. And the Catholic Church teaches that if we want to take the Bible seriously,
0:43.2	that's where we must start with the literal sense. So that's our goal in this podcast to get
0:48.0	the literal sense. Today's reading at Mass is Matthew chapter 2 versus 13 to 18. Here's the reading for today.
0:58.8	After the wise men had left, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said,
1:05.1	Get up, take the child and his mother with you and escape into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, because Herod intends
1:14.4	to search for the child and do away with him. So Joseph got up, and taking the child and his
1:22.3	mother with him, left that night for Egypt, where he stayed until Herod was dead.
1:28.8	This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken through the prophet.
1:32.3	I called my son out of Egypt.
1:35.7	Herod was furious when he realised that he had been outwitted by the wise men,
1:40.7	and in Bethlehem and its surrounding district,
1:43.7	he had all the male children killed,
1:46.0	who were two years old or under, reckoning by the date he had been careful to ask the wise
1:51.6	men.
1:53.5	It was then that the words spoken through the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled.
1:58.1	A voice was heard in Rama, sobbing and loudly lamenting. It was Rachel weeping for her
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