Thursday of Week 4 of Eastertide - John 13: 16-20

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

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John 13: 16-20 - 'Whoever welcomes the one I send welcomes me.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 858-859 (in 'The Apostles' Mission') - Jesus is the Father's Emissary. From the beginning of his ministry, he "called to him those whom he desired; .... and he appointed twelve, whom also he named apostles, to be with him, and to be sent out to preach." From then on, they would also be his "emissaries" (Greek apostoloi). In them, Christ continues his own mission: "As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." The apostles' ministry is the continuation of his mission; Jesus said to the Twelve: "he who receives you receives me." Jesus unites them to the mission he received from the Father. As "the Son can do nothing of his own accord," but receives everything from the Father who sent him, so those whom Jesus sends can do nothing apart from him, from whom they received both the mandate for their mission and the power to carry it out. Christ's apostles knew that they were called by God as "ministers of a new covenant," "servants of God," "ambassadors for Christ," "servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God."

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to Logical Bible Study.
0:16.7	In this podcast, we take a look at the gospel reading for the day's mass, and the idea is you can
0:22.0	listen to this podcast before going to mass in the morning or after you've been to Mass, but it
0:27.6	helps you really understand what the original meaning of the Bible is, of that gospel passage.
0:33.2	What was the author trying to get across?
0:35.7	And we always want to start with that.
0:37.9	And then, of course, we can build on that when we hear a spiritual interpretation of the text during the sermon at Mass.
0:44.6	But our literal sense is where we always want to start.
0:47.4	And this podcast is designed to help you do that every single day.
0:52.3	Today's mass reading is from John chapter 13, verses 16 to 20. After he had
1:00.2	washed the feet of his disciples, Jesus said to them, I tell you most solemnly, no servant is greater
1:07.6	than his master. No messenger is greater than the man who sent him. Now that you know
1:14.0	this, happiness will be yours if you behave accordingly. I am not speaking about all of you. I know the
1:21.6	ones I have chosen. But what scripture says must be fulfilled. Someone who shares my table rebels against me.
1:30.3	I tell you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe that
1:37.3	I am he.
1:39.3	I tell you most solemnly, whoever welcomes the one I send welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.
1:51.6	So we're in John chapter 13, and the context is it's the last supper. By now Jesus has already
1:59.1	washed the disciples' feet. That happened at the start of chapter 13
2:02.6	and you can hear that passage every year on holy Thursday the start of john chapter 13 is read
2:09.0	so if you want to go back and study that passage you can find the read the podcast for holy
2:15.6	Thursday or sometimes called mornedy Thursday, the day before Good Friday,
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