The Secret to Matthew's Gospel - Reading Matthew (Part 1)
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Why does the Catholic Church hold up Matthew’s Gospel as so crucial for passing on the Faith--whether as a parent, teacher, catechist or friend?
And why does Matthew stand out in times of evangelization and renewal in the Church?
Matthew’s background as a tax collector gives an important clue into how he gave his Gospel a beautiful structure - a structure that is the key to understanding the story of Jesus as the climax of the history of the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:20.0 | I love taking pilgrims to Rome, especially to the major Basilicas like St John Lattering, |
| 0:25.8 | and I want you to imagine walking into this magnificent church. You're immediately |
| 0:30.4 | greeted by 12 massive statues, six on the right, six on the left, and each of these |
| 0:36.8 | statues represent one of the 12 apostles. |
| 0:40.0 | One of the first ones on the right-hand side is a man who's holding a book and he's stepping on a bag of money. |
| 0:47.6 | Who would that be? That's St. Matthew, the bag of money representing his past, his life as a tax collector, and the book representing |
| 0:56.5 | his future, his being not just a great apostle, but one of the four evangelists, one of the four |
| 1:02.0 | gospel writers. |
| 1:03.5 | And I love this statue because it captures |
| 1:06.8 | Matthew's past and Matthew's future. |
| 1:09.5 | And that's going to be so important for all of us Catholics |
| 1:12.4 | over the next year as we enter into the great year of |
| 1:15.9 | Matthew. |
| 1:16.9 | And that's what I want to talk about here today. |
| 1:18.6 | I want to enter in to the depths of Matthew's gospel with you to get you kind of ready. I know some of you may even be working in |
| 1:25.1 | Catholic education as a school teacher or maybe you're in ministry or maybe |
| 1:29.0 | you're just a parent and wanting to get your kids ready for the next year. |
| 1:32.3 | This is a good time to just step back a little bit and |
| 1:34.8 | get ready for the year of Matthew, which will begin next year. We'll talk more about Matthew as |
| 1:39.5 | the podcast goes on, but today I want you to get to just know this great scene. I want you to get to know the man, |
| 1:44.6 | and I want you to get to know how he thinks and how he works. So I'm going to give just a brief introduction to his |
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