O Come O Come Emmanuel

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🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

As Christmas draws closer, the Gospel readings focus on the Gospel of Matthew, which begins with something seemingly mundane—the genealogy of Christ.

Why does Matthew start his Gospel with a genealogy? If you look at it from the point of view of a first century Jew, it’s completely captivating. These names reveal a lot about the history of God’s chosen people, and builds up to reveal the identity of the new king and Emmanuel, Jesus.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:07.0	Every year in the third week of Advent we have one of my favorite gospel readings at
0:18.5	Mass. It comes on the Tuesday of the third week of Advent and it comes from the opening of Matthew's Gospel,
0:24.4	Matthew chapter one and I want to share with you today a little bit of why I love this
0:29.1	passage and why I think it's especially so important in these final days of Advent as we're leading up to Christmas,
0:35.6	but I want to bring you in on Matthew's mindset here.
0:39.0	I want you to kind of put yourself in Matthew's shoes.
0:41.6	Imagine being him writing this gospel.
0:44.3	You know, this is traditionally believed to be the first of the gospel is written, and so Matthew
0:48.6	has a great responsibility to think about how is he going to begin the story of Jesus, the greatest story ever
0:56.5	told, how does he strategically start off and grab people's attention and make it really captivating so they can't put it down.
1:04.7	And I want to share with you, this is what Matthew came up with.
1:07.0	Are you ready?
1:07.5	He says this.
1:08.5	The Book of the Genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
1:13.2	Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob,
1:16.7	and Jacob the father of Judah.
1:20.3	Isn't that life changing?
1:22.0	Matthew, what were you thinking?
1:26.0	I mean, of all the ways Matthew could have begun his gospel,
1:30.0	why did he choose to begin with a genealogy, a long list of 42 names?
1:37.8	I mean, how boring, there's a New Testament scholar that says that reading a biblical genealogy is about as exciting
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