Tuesday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Matt 7: 6, 12-14

Daily Gospel Exegesis

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

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Matthew 7: 6, 12-14 - 'Treat others as you would like them to treat you.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 1789 (in 'To Choose in accord with 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" (abbreviated).

- 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."

- 1036 (in 'Hell') - The affirmations of Sacred Scripture and the teachings of the Church on the subject of hell are a call to the responsibility incumbent upon man to make use of his freedom in view of his eternal destiny. They are at the same time an urgent call to conversion: "Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few."

- 1696 (in 'Life in Christ') - The way of Christ "leads to life"; a contrary way "leads to destruction." The Gospel parable of the two ways remains ever present in the catechesis of the Church; it shows the importance of moral decisions for our salvation: "There are two ways, the one of life, the other of death; but between the two, there is a great difference."

- 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.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. It's time for another episode of Daily Gospel Exegesis. As always, what we want to do is
0:17.2	provide a truly Catholic academic approach to Scripture. Really look at the text of
0:22.5	scripture, pull it apart, find out what Jesus was intending to teach here and what the gospel
0:27.6	author was trying to communicate on the literal sense, which is where we should start as Catholics.
0:33.8	Now today if you go to Mass, the gospel reading you'll hear is from Matthew chapter 7, verse 6 and then verses 12 to 14.
0:43.6	Here's the reading.
0:45.6	Jesus said to his disciples, do not give dogs what is holy and do not throw your pearls in front of pigs.
0:54.0	Or they may trample them and then turn on you and tear you to pieces.
0:59.2	So always treat others as you would like them to treat you. That is the meaning of the law and the prophets.
1:07.1	Enter by the narrow gate, since the road that leads to perdition is wide and spacious, and many take it,
1:14.4	but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
1:23.1	So, we're in the sermon on the mount here, and this is a really interesting passage we have today because it's one of the places where
1:31.4	the lectionary has taken a verse from one spot in the chapter and then a big gap and then
1:36.2	taken some verses from later in the chapter and put them together.
1:40.0	And we'll talk about why that might be.
1:42.7	So in chapter seven, we're getting towards the end of the sermon on the mount, and that's all
1:47.1	about contrasting true righteousness with false righteousness.
1:51.0	Chapter 7 covers all sorts of topics.
1:54.1	And we're looking at, as I said, two separate passages.
1:57.0	We'll take each in turn, the two different parts of Matthew chapter 7.
2:01.7	Prior to this, in verses 1 to 5, Jesus has been telling his followers not to condemn others for their
2:07.7	sins.
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