Friday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Matt 8: 1-4
Daily Gospel Exegesis
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🗓️ 27 June 2024
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Matthew 8: 1-4 - 'If you want to, you can cure me.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 448 (in 'Lord') - Very often in the Gospels people address Jesus as "Lord". This title testifies to the respect and trust of those who approach him for help and healing. At the prompting of the Holy Spirit, "Lord" expresses the recognition of the divine mystery of Jesus. In the encounter with the risen Jesus, this title becomes adoration: "My Lord and my God!" It thus takes on a connotation of love and affection that remains proper to the Christian tradition: "It is the Lord!"
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome back to Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast. We're looking today at a reading that will be |
| 0:16.7 | quite familiar to you. It's a short, simple one, and it appears in all three of the synoptic |
| 0:21.8 | gospels. So we're looking at Matthew chapter 8 verses 1 to 4. This is the reading you would hear |
| 0:27.2 | today at Mass. After Jesus had come down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. A leper |
| 0:35.4 | now came up and bowed low in front of him. Sir, he said, if you want to, |
| 0:40.8 | you can cure me. Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said, of course I want to, be cured. |
| 0:50.0 | And his leprosy was cured at once. Then Jesus said to him, mind, you do not tell anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest |
| 0:59.5 | and make the offering prescribed by Moses as evidence for them. |
| 1:06.4 | So a nice short reading today. |
| 1:09.0 | This begins a new section of the Gospel of Matthew. If you've been |
| 1:12.4 | following us in the weekday cycle, we've been looking at the Sermon on the Mount, chapters five to |
| 1:17.5 | seven. We're now beginning the next section of Matthew with chapters eight and nine, and that |
| 1:21.8 | describes a whole series of healings that Jesus performed early in his ministry. So Matthew wants his readers to understand |
| 1:29.8 | that the kingdom is not just about teachings. It can also involve physical healings. And also Matthew |
| 1:35.3 | wants to emphasize the kind of people who are invited into the kingdom. In the coming chapters, |
| 1:40.4 | we'll see some quite surprising people from a Jewish perspective as to who Jesus allows into the |
| 1:46.2 | kingdom. And in a sense what we're going to see is Jesus and the apostles beginning to fulfill |
| 1:52.9 | the teachings of the sermon on the Mount. And in particular, the teaching to be a light to the world |
| 1:58.5 | because they're going to bring in Gentiles, they're |
| 2:00.8 | going to bring in lepers. So that process of bringing people or showing people the light of the |
| 2:06.1 | kingdom is beginning. So in the next couple of chapters, we're going to see 10 miracles, and they're |
| 2:11.9 | presented in three groups. Between the three groups, there's the short interludes about discipleship. The miracles |
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