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Matthew 16: 24-28 - 'Anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 736 (in 'The Holy Spirit - God's gift') - We live by the Spirit"; the more we renounce ourselves, the more we "walk by the Spirit" (abbreviated).
- 226 (in 'The Implications of Faith in One God') - It means making good use of created things: faith in God, the only One, leads us to use everything that is not God only insofar as it brings us closer to him, and to detach ourselves from it insofar as it turns us away from him:
My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from you.
My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to you.
My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to you.
- 618 (in 'Our participation in Christ's Sacrifice') - He calls his disciples to "take up [their] cross and follow (him)", for "Christ also suffered for (us), leaving (us) an example so that (we) should follow in his steps." In fact Jesus desires to associate with his redeeming sacrifice those who were to be its first beneficiaries (abbreviated).
- 2029 (in 'Grace and Justification') - "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."
- 363 (in 'Body and Soul but Truly One') - In Sacred Scripture the term "soul" often refers to human life or the entire human person. But "soul" also refers to the innermost aspect of man, that which is of greatest value in him, that by which he is most especially in God's image: "soul" signifies the spiritual principle in man.
- 1021 (in 'The Particular Judgement') - Death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ. The New Testament speaks of judgment primarily in its aspect of the final encounter with Christ in his second coming, but also repeatedly affirms that each will be rewarded immediately after death in accordance with his works and faith. the parable of the poor man Lazarus and the words of Christ on the cross to the good thief, as well as other New Testament texts speak of a final destiny of the soul -a destiny which can be different for some and for others.
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0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome back again to Daily Gospel Exegesis. This is the Catholic podcast that's all |
0:18.3 | about looking at the literal sense of scripture. What does the text mean? |
0:22.2 | What is it saying on the original textual level? |
0:25.6 | So what is Jesus trying to communicate to his audience? |
0:28.2 | And what do the words mean? |
0:29.8 | And we should always start there before we jump into any spiritual applications. |
0:34.7 | We want to start with what does it mean in its original context. |
0:37.9 | And that's what we help you do in this daily podcast. We're going to jump straight into it today. |
0:43.2 | Matthew chapter 16 versus 24 to 28. A really interesting reading. Jesus said to his disciples, |
0:51.5 | If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up |
0:57.1 | his cross and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it, but anyone who |
1:04.5 | loses his life for my sake will find it. What then will a man gain if he wins the whole world and ruins his life? Or what has a man to |
1:15.3 | offer an exchange for his life? For the son of man is going to come in the glory of his father with his |
1:22.3 | angels and when he does he will reward each one according to his behaviour. |
1:29.0 | I tell you solemnly, there are some of these standing here |
1:33.0 | who will not taste death before they see the son of man coming with his kingdom. |
1:42.2 | Okay, so what's the context here? |
1:44.8 | Just before this, Jesus had begun to tell his disciples that he would go to Jerusalem to suffer. |
1:50.6 | So he's just started to predict his own death and resurrection. |
1:54.2 | Now, Peter reacted strongly against this idea, if you remember the passage. |
1:58.6 | He said, that will never happen to you, Lord. |
2:01.6 | Such a thing cannot happen. And Jesus rebuked him and said, get behind me, Satan. So that was Peter's response to |
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