Thursday of Week 24 in Ordinary Time - Luke 7: 36-50
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
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Luke 7: 36-50 - 'Her many sins have been forgiven, or she would not have shown such great love.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 575 (in 'Jesus and Israel') - To be sure, Christ's relations with the Pharisees were not exclusively polemical. Some Pharisees warn him of the danger he was courting; Jesus praises some of them, like the scribe of Mark 12:34, and dines several times at their homes (abbreviated).
- 588 (in 'Jesus and Israel's faith in the One God and Saviour') - Jesus scandalized the Pharisees by eating with tax collectors and sinners as familiarly as with themselves. Against those among them "who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others", Jesus affirmed: "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." He went further by proclaiming before the Pharisees that, since sin is universal, those who pretend not to need salvation are blind to themselves.
- 2616 (in 'Jesus hears our prayer') - Prayer to Jesus is answered by him already during his ministry, through signs that anticipate the power of his death and Resurrection: Jesus hears the prayer of faith, expressed in words (the leper, Jairus, the Canaanite woman, the good thief) or in silence (the bearers of the paralytic, the woman with a hemorrhage who touches his clothes, the tears and ointment of the sinful woman).
- 1441 (in 'Only God Forgives Sin') - Only God forgives sins. Since he is the Son of God, Jesus says of himself, "The Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins" and exercises this divine power: "Your sins are forgiven" (abbreviated).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Welcome again to Logical Bible Study, and this is the Catholic podcast where every day we do an exegesis of scriptures looking at the literal sense of the |
| 0:21.9 | text. And I know so many of you have benefited from this approach to the scriptures. And today we'll |
| 0:28.1 | jump straight into it because we have a bit of a longer passage and quite an interesting one. |
| 0:32.6 | Luke chapter 7 verses 36 to 50. One of the Pharisees invited Jesus to a meal. When he arrived at the Pharisees |
| 0:42.9 | house and took his place at table, a woman came in who had a bad name in the town. She had |
| 0:50.6 | heard he was dining with the Pharisee and brought with her an alabaster jar of ointment. |
| 0:56.5 | She waited behind him at his feet, weeping and her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them away |
| 1:03.5 | with her hair. Then she covered his feet with kisses and anointed them with the ointment. |
| 1:11.0 | When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, |
| 1:16.2 | If this man were a prophet, he would know who this woman is that is touching him and what a bad name she has. |
| 1:23.8 | Then Jesus took him up and said, Simon, I have something to say to you. |
| 1:30.3 | Speak, master, was the reply. |
| 1:33.3 | There was once a creditor who had two men in his debt. |
| 1:37.3 | One owed him 500 denari, the other 50. |
| 1:41.3 | They were unable to pay, so he pardoned them both. |
| 1:45.3 | Which of them will love him more? |
| 1:48.2 | The one who is pardoned more, I suppose, answered Simon. |
| 1:52.4 | Jesus said, you are right. |
| 1:56.0 | Then he turned to the woman. |
| 1:58.5 | Simon, he said, you see this woman? |
| 2:04.3 | I came into your house and you poured no water over my feet, but she has poured out her tears over my feet and wiped them away with her hair. You gave me no |
| 2:12.5 | kiss, but she has been covering my feet with kisses ever since I came in. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has an covering my feet with kisses ever since I came in. |
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