Saturday of Week 5 of Lent - John 11: 45-56

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

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John 11: 45-56- 'Jesus was to die to gather together the scattered children of God.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

-596 (in 'Divisions among the Jewish authorities concerning Jesus') - The religious authorities in Jerusalem were not unanimous about what stance to take towards Jesus. The Pharisees threatened to excommunicate his followers. To those who feared that "everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation", the high priest Caiaphas replied by prophesying: "It is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish." (abbreviated)

-58 (in 'the Covenant with Noah') - The covenant with Noah remains in force during the times of the Gentiles, until the universal proclamation of the Gospel. The Bible venerates several great figures among the Gentiles: Abel the just, the king-priest Melchisedek - a figure of Christ - and the upright "Noah, Daniel, and Job". Scripture thus expresses the heights of sanctity that can be reached by those who live according to the covenant of Noah, waiting for Christ to "gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad".

- 60 (in 'God chooses Abraham') - The people descended from Abraham would be the trustee of the promise made to the patriarchs, the chosen people, called to prepare for that day when God would gather all his children into the unity of the Church. They would be the root on to which the Gentiles would be grafted, once they came to believe.

-706 (in 'The Spirit of the Promise') - Against all human hope, God promises descendants to Abraham, as the fruit of faith and of the power of the Holy Spirit. In Abraham's progeny all the nations of the earth will be blessed. This progeny will be Christ himself, in whom the outpouring of the Holy Spirit will "gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad." (abbreviated)

-2793 (in 'Our Father') - The baptized cannot pray to "our" Father without bringing before him all those for whom he gave his beloved Son. God's love has no bounds, neither should our prayer. Praying "our" Father opens to us the dimensions of his love revealed in Christ: praying with and for all who do not yet know him, so that Christ may "gather into one the children of God." (abbreviated)

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to our podcast. Thank you so much for your support and we'll jump straight into it today.
0:19.3	So we're continuing in the Gospel of John
0:21.4	and the passage we're looking at that you would hear if you went to Mass today is from John
0:27.8	11, verse 45 to 56. Many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did believed in him, but some of them
0:39.8	went to tell the Pharisees what Jesus had done. Then the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting.
0:47.1	Here is this man working all these signs, they said, and what action are we taking? If we let him go,
0:56.8	on in this way, everybody will believe in him,
1:04.7	and the Romans will come and destroy the holy place and our nation. One of them, Caiaphas, the high priest that year, said, you do not seem to have grasped the situation at all. You fail to see that it is better for one man to die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.
1:18.6	He did not speak in his own person.
1:21.5	It was as high priests that he made this prophecy that Jesus was to die for the nation,
1:26.8	and not for the nation only, but to gather
1:29.6	together in unity the scattered children of God. From that day, they were determined to kill him.
1:38.6	So Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but left the district for a town called Ephraim, in the
1:46.3	country bordering on the desert, and stayed there with his disciples. The Jewish Passover drew near,
1:54.1	and many of the country people who had gone up to Jerusalem to purify themselves, looked out
1:59.8	for Jesus, saying to one another as they stood about in
2:03.0	the temple.
2:04.0	What do you think?
2:05.3	Will he come to the festival or not?
2:10.9	So as always, we want to start by considering what has just happened.
2:16.7	So just before this, earlier in John chapter 11,
2:20.2	Jesus has raised Lazarus from the dead, and he's the brother of Mary and Martha. So we start
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