Thursday of Week 15 in Ordinary Time - Matt 11: 28-30

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

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Matthew 11: 28-30 - 'My yoke is easy and my burden light.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 459 (in 'Why did the Word become Flesh') - The Word became flesh to be our model of holiness: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me.” “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me" (abbreviated)

- 1658 (in 'The Domestic Church') - The doors of homes, the “domestic churches,” and of the great family which is the Church must be open to all of them. “No one is without a family in this world: the Church is a home and family for everyone, especially those who ‘labor and are heavy laden.’”(abbreviated)

- 1615 (in 'Marriage in the Lord') - This unequivocal insistence on the indissolubility of the marriage bond may have left some perplexed and could seem to be a demand impossible to realize. However, Jesus has not placed on spouses a burden impossible to bear, or too heavy—heavier than the Law of Moses. By coming to restore the original order of creation disturbed by sin, he himself gives the strength and grace to live marriage in the new dimension of the Reign of God. It is by following Christ, renouncing themselves, and taking up their crosses that spouses will be able to “receive” the original meaning of marriage and live it with the help of Christ. This grace of Christian marriage is a fruit of Christ’s cross, the source of all Christian life (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to logical Bible study, the Catholic podcast where we try to take a really logical, exegical look at the scriptures.
0:21.5	Today we're looking at Matthew Chapter 11 versus 28 to 30.
0:27.0	And I think you'll find that these are quite familiar verses, but they're perhaps a little bit misunderstood.
0:33.3	So let's have a look at the text for today's reading.
0:37.0	Jesus said,
0:38.5	Come to me all you who labor and are overburdened,
0:42.7	and I will give you rest.
0:45.5	Shoulder my yoke and learn from me,
0:48.6	for I am gentle and humble in heart,
0:51.7	and you will find rest for your souls. Yes yes my yoke is easy and my burden light now just prior to this
1:02.1	jesus has been praying a private prayer to the father so it's that prayer about i thank you father that you have hidden
1:09.6	these things from the wise and the learned,
1:11.8	etc. So he's just been praying directly to the Father, and now he transitions into speaking to
1:17.8	the crowds, and it might be on the same occasion, or it might be on a different occasion, but Matthew
1:22.2	might have put these two things together because they have an overall similar thing.
1:27.3	Verse 28, come to me all who labor.
1:30.4	Notice that all. It's an invitation to everyone. Who labor and are overburdened. What does it mean to
1:37.2	be overburdened? Well, in context, it seems to refer to those who have worked spiritually to find God,
1:43.8	but have not been able to. This would particularly apply to those who have worked spiritually to find God but have not been able to. This would
1:46.8	particularly apply to those who are struggling in Jesus' time to bear the demands of the Pharisees.
1:52.7	And we know from later in Matthew, the Pharisees actually made it harder for people to access God.
1:57.3	They tie up heavy burdens and lay on and lay them on people's shoulders. So this metaphor of
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