Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Logical Bible Study podcast. This is a Catholic ministry,

which is all about helping you understand the gospel reading from today's Mass, but particularly

doing a thorough

exegesis of the text. So going through verse by verse, seeing what it meant in its original

context. So we're all about helping Catholics, helping Christians, helping other people,

really understand the scripture as it is and letting it speak on its own terms.

Today we're looking at Luke chapter 15 versus 1 to 10.

This is the reading you would hear at today's mass.

It's quite a well-known one.

The tax collectors and the sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say.

And the Pharisees and the scribes complained.

This man, they said, welcomed sinners and eats with them.

So he spoke this parable to them.

What man among you with a hundred sheep, losing one,

would not leave the 99 in the wilderness

and go after the missing one till he found it?

And when he found it, would he not joyfully take it on his shoulders and then, when he got home, call together his friends and

neighbours? Rejoice with me, he would say, I have found my sheep that was lost. In the same way,

I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven

over one repentant sinner than over 99 virtuous men who have no need of repentance.

Or again, what woman with ten drachmas would not, if she lost one, light a lamp, and sweep out the house and search thoroughly till she found it.

And then, when she had found it, call together her friends and neighbours.

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