Thursday of Week 1 of Lent - Matt 7: 7-12
Daily Gospel Exegesis
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🗓️ 12 March 2025
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Matthew 7: 7-12 - 'Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 2609 (in Jesus teaches us how to pray) - Once committed to conversion, the heart learns to pray in faith. Faith is a filial adherence to God beyond what we feel and understand. It is possible because the beloved Son gives us access to the Father. He can ask us to "seek" and to "knock," since he himself is the door and the way.
- 1789 (in 'Moral Conscience') - Some rules apply in every case: - One may never do evil so that good may result from it; - The Golden Rule: "Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them."
- 1970 (in 'The New Law') - The Law of the Gospel requires us to make the decisive choice between "the two ways" and to put into practice the words of the Lord. It is summed up in the Golden Rule, "Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; this is the law and the prophets."
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome back to our podcast where we look at the gospel reading from the day's mass. |
| 0:16.1 | And we'll get straight into it today. We're looking at Matthew chapter 7, verse 7 to 12. So let's start by |
| 0:22.4 | reading the passage. Jesus said to his disciples, ask and it will be given to you, search and you will |
| 0:30.3 | find. Knock and the door will be open to you. For the one who asks always receives, the one who |
| 0:37.3 | searches always finds, the one who knocks always receives, the one who searches always finds, the one who knocks |
| 0:40.5 | will always have the door open to him. |
| 0:43.5 | Is there a man among you who would hand his son a stone when he asked for bread? |
| 0:49.2 | Or would hand him a snake when he asked for a fish? |
| 0:53.4 | If you then, who are evil, know how to give your children what is good, |
| 0:57.7 | how much more will your father in heaven give good things to those who ask him? So, always treat |
| 1:05.4 | others as you would like them to treat you. That is the meaning of the law and the prophets. |
| 1:17.6 | So let's have a go at doing an exegesis of the literal sense of this text. So this is part of the Sermon on the Mount, as a lot of the readings in the last few days have been. |
| 1:22.6 | And in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus is giving an extended sermon where he contrast what some |
| 1:28.0 | people in his time believe to be righteousness, particularly the Pharisees, with what he thinks |
| 1:33.5 | true righteousness is. |
| 1:35.8 | Now, chapter 7 in particular, though, as we start to wrap up the Sermon on the Mount, in chapter |
| 1:41.1 | seven, Jesus covers a variety of different topics about the Christian life, and they're |
| 1:45.6 | not always clearly connected to each other. |
| 1:47.9 | It's possible here that Matthew has collected a series of sayings that is sort of related |
| 1:53.0 | to stuff and put it together, and maybe Jesus didn't say these things literally one after |
| 1:58.1 | the other, or it's possible that he did as well, but it's |
| 2:01.2 | sort of a variety of different topics which aren't always straightforward connected to each |
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