Saturday of Week 7 in Ordinary Time - Mark 10: 13-16

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

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Mark 10: 13-16 - 'It is to such as these little children that the kingdom of God belongs.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 1244 (in 'Christian Initiation') - First Holy Communion. Having become a child of God clothed with the wedding garment, the neophyte is admitted "to the marriage supper of the Lamb" and receives the food of the new life, the body and blood of Christ. the Eastern Churches maintain a lively awareness of the unity of Christian initiation by giving Holy Communion to all the newly baptized and confirmed, even little children, recalling the Lord's words: "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them." The Latin Church, which reserves admission to Holy Communion to those who have attained the age of reason, expresses the orientation of Baptism to the Eucharist by having the newly baptized child brought to the altar for the praying of the Our Father."

- 1261 (in 'The Necessity of Baptism') - As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus' tenderness toward children which caused him to say: "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them," allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. All the more urgent is the Church's call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism.

- 699 (in 'Symbols of the Holy Spirit') - The hand. Jesus heals the sick and blesses little children by laying hands on them. In his name the apostles will do the same. Even more pointedly, it is by the Apostles' imposition of hands that the Holy Spirit is given. The Letter to the Hebrews lists the imposition of hands among the "fundamental elements" of its teaching. The Church has kept this sign of the all-powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit in its sacramental epicleses.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Logical Bible Study podcast. Thank you so much for your support of this
0:16.9	ministry. Our goal is to help you understand the Bible better by doing a really in-depth
0:21.7	look at the gospel reading that you would hear at today's Mass. So today's reading is Mark
0:26.8	chapter 10 verses 13 to 16. People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to touch them.
0:36.2	The disciples turned them away, but when Jesus saw this,
0:40.1	he was indignant and said to them, Let the little children come to me, do not stop them,
0:46.6	for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. I tell you solemnly, anyone who does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child
0:57.3	will never enter it. Then he put his arms around them, laid his hands on them, and gave them his
1:04.6	blessing. So quite a famous passage today. Here we see one of the most tender depictions of Jesus in the
1:13.0	Gospels. What's the context? So Jesus is doing ministry in the region of Judea and Perea,
1:19.1	so the southern part of Israel before he begins his final journey to Jerusalem.
1:24.5	Just before this, he's given his prohibition on divorce and remarriage. And that leads
1:29.8	straight into today's section about children. So verse 13, people were bringing little children to Jesus.
1:37.5	Now, if you compare this with Matthew's Gospel, it looks like this might be on the way to Jerusalem.
1:43.0	So this is probably whole crowds of people on the way to
1:47.3	Jerusalem for Passover. They're there on pilgrimage. So there's massive crowds going to Jerusalem.
1:52.3	And that would include whole families with young children. And people have probably heard that
1:56.9	Jesus is traveling in the crowd as well. So they send their children to Jesus.
2:02.5	And it says they sent them to Jesus for him to touch them.
2:07.2	Now, Matthew's version of this makes it clear that they don't just want Jesus to touch the children.
2:12.0	They want Jesus to bless the children.
2:14.0	That word is actually used there in Matthew's version.
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