Tuesday of Week 19 in Ordinary Time - Matt 18: 1-5, 10, 12-14

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

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Matthew 18: 1-5, 10, 12-14 - 'Anyone who welcomes in a little child in my name welcomes me.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 526 (in 'The Christmas Mystery') - To become a child in relation to God is the condition for entering the kingdom. For this, we must humble ourselves and become little. Even more: to become "children of God" we must be "born from above" or "born of God" (abbreviated).

- 2785 (in 'Our Father who art in Heaven') - Second, a humble and trusting heart that enables us "to turn and become like children": for it is to "little children" that the Father is revealed (abbreviated).

- 329 (in 'Who are the Angels') - With their whole beings the angels are servants and messengers of God. Because they "always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven" they are the "mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word" (abbreviated).

- 336 (in 'The Angels in the Life of the Church') - From the beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession. "Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life." Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God.

- 605 (in 'God takes the initiative of universal redeeming love') - At the end of the parable of the lost sheep Jesus recalled that God’s love excludes no one: “So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.” He affirms that he came “to give his life as a ransom for many”; this last term is not restrictive, but contrasts the whole of humanity with the unique person of the redeemer who hands himself over to save us. The Church, following the apostles, teaches that Christ died for all men without exception: “There is not, never has been, and never will be a single human being for whom Christ did not suffer.”

- 2822 (in 'Thy Will be Done on Earth as it is in Heaven') - Our Father “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” He “is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish" (abbreviated)

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back again to Daily Gospel Exegesis, which is a podcast made by the Logical
0:18.7	Bible Study Ministry. This is a ministry that's all about
0:22.1	looking at the Bible from a Catholic perspective and helping average Catholics understand
0:27.2	their Bible better by looking at the literal sense of the text. So not just doing an overview
0:32.4	of the Bible, lots of ministries do that, but we really dive into specific texts so we go through verse by
0:39.6	verse and look at what the original meaning was what did the original author try to convey
0:44.4	taking into account all the various language and sociological aspects of that so that's called
0:50.2	doing an exegesis of the text and we do that every day on this podcast.
0:54.5	We look at the gospel reading for today's Mass, and we try and work out what it means.
1:00.0	Today we're looking at Matthew 18, verses 1 to 5, verse 10, and verse 12 to 14.
1:08.8	So it skips around a little bit, but basically we're at the start of Matthew chapter 18.
1:13.6	Here's the reading.
1:15.6	The disciples came to Jesus and said,
1:18.2	Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
1:21.7	So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them.
1:27.2	Then he said, I tell you solemnly, unless you change
1:32.0	and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes
1:39.0	himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who welcomes a little child
1:47.3	like this in my name welcomes me. See that you never despise any of these little ones,
1:54.6	for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my father in heaven.
2:01.4	Tell me, suppose a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays.
2:06.8	Will he not leave the 99 on the hillside and go in search of the stray?
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