Hi everyone. Welcome to Logical Bible Study podcast. This is a special bonus episode where I want to

introduce you to the Gospel of Matthew.

That's my favourite gospel and it's the gospel that you're about to hear a lot of in the liturgical year.

So over the next couple of months, we're going to be moving systematically through that gospel.

So it's worth diving into the background of the gospel to find out who the author was,

what his intentions are, and things like that that will help us really understand why he writes

the way that he does in comparison to the other gospels. So firstly, when will you hear the Gospel of

Matthew, the first gospel during the lectionary. On weekdays, it's read

semi-continuously in the middle part of the year. So from ordinary time week 10, right up until

ordinary time week 21. And usually, depending on when Easter is in that year, that means from

around June to August,

from Monday through to Saturday every week, you will hear from the Gospel of Matthew.

So on Ordinary Time Week 10 Monday, it starts at Matthew Chapter 5, and then it finishes with Chapter 25,

Ordinary Time Week 21 Saturday. During the weekdays it goes through

most of each of those chapters, although it leaves out a little bit occasionally. And the first four

chapters of the book of Matthew usually get to hear around Christmas and then the last few chapters

of the book of Matthew usually get to hear around Easter.

You'll also hear some of it during Lent and Advent.

So there's bits of Matthew scattered all throughout the year.

On Sundays, you'll hear a lot of the Gospel of Matthew if it's Year A of the liturgical cycle.

So Year A is the Gospel of Matthew.

And if you listen, if you only go to Mass on Sundays,

...