The Mass Explained: God Speaks His Word
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
God speaks to each one of us directly at each Mass, but most of us miss it. Today, Dr. Sri reminds us of the power of God’s Word spoken to us in the Liturgy of the Word and shows us how to receive God’s Word into our hearts in a personal and transformative way.
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"During the Liturgy of the Word, the God of the universe’s eternal Word travels through time and space to touch your life today."
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:07.9 | Do you ever struggle paying attention to those readings at Mass? |
| 0:17.7 | You know, we sit down and there's these readings from the Bible from a long time ago, and |
| 0:22.2 | your mind wanders, you're thinking about problems at work, you're thinking about what's |
| 0:25.7 | going to be for brunch today or the football game in the afternoon, and you know, you should |
| 0:30.0 | be really focused on the sacred readings, but you get done with them, you're like, oh, what |
| 0:34.8 | were they? What was the gospel about? And you feel bad about that? Well, I want to help us. |
| 0:40.4 | I want to help us to enter into the liturgy of the word. I want to get practical and talk to |
| 0:44.0 | us and practical things we could do to really receive those readings into our hearts more. |
| 0:48.2 | But I also want to, I want to set a context. I want us to understand what this is all about. |
| 0:53.3 | You see, the liturgy of the word is really a powerful moment when God is coming to speak to you. |
| 1:02.1 | Really, he's coming to speak to you. He's coming to speak to you through the inspired |
| 1:06.5 | words of scripture. And it's a very personal word. These aren't just stories from a long time ago. |
| 1:13.6 | It's a personal word. The analogy I like to think about is what the Israelites experience when |
| 1:18.4 | they got to Mount Sinai when God came to speak to the people in the Exodus story. They had just |
| 1:25.0 | escaped from Egypt. They go to Mount Sinai and they get the 10 commandments. But did you know |
| 1:31.4 | that those 10 commandments before they were ever written down on those tablets of stone? |
| 1:38.1 | They were spoken to the people. Did you know that? That's a little detail. Many people don't |
| 1:42.5 | realize that if you read Exodus 20, it's very clear that that God spoke the 10 commandments to the |
| 1:49.1 | Israelites. He spoke them. And what's fascinating is the language that was used when he spoke those |
| 1:56.8 | famous Tao Shaunats. When God said Tao Shauna kill Tao Shauna steel. He wasn't saying you all |
| 2:04.7 | Shauna kill you all Shauna steel. It wasn't the second person plural to use grammar terms here. |
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