Tuesday of Week 23 in Ordinary Time - Luke 6: 12-19
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🗓️ 8 September 2025
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Luke 6: 12-19 - 'Jesus chooses his twelve apostles.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 1577 (in 'Who Can Receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders') - "Only a baptized man (vir) validly receives sacred ordination." The Lord Jesus chose men (viri) to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry. The college of bishops, with whom the priests are united in the priesthood, makes the college of the twelve an ever-present and ever-active reality until Christ's return. the Church recognizes herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord himself. For this reason the ordination of women is not possible.
- 2600 (in 'Jesus Prays') - The Gospel according to St. Luke emphasizes the action of the Holy Spirit and the meaning of prayer in Christ's ministry. Jesus prays before the decisive moments of his mission: before his Father's witness to him during his baptism and Transfiguration, and before his own fulfillment of the Father's plan of love by his Passion. He also prays before the decisive moments involving the mission of his apostles: at his election and call of the Twelve, before Peter's confession of him as "the Christ of God," and again that the faith of the chief of the Apostles may not fail when tempted. Jesus' prayer before the events of salvation that the Father has asked him to fulfill is a humble and trusting commitment of his human will to the loving will of the Father.
- 695 (in 'Symbols of the Holy Spirit') - The Spirit filled Christ and the power of the Spirit went out from him in his acts of healing and of saving (abbreviated).
- 1116 (in 'The Sacraments of Christ') - Sacraments are "powers that comes forth" from the Body of Christ, which is ever-living and life-giving. They are actions of the Holy Spirit at work in his Body, the Church. They are "the masterworks of God" in the new and everlasting covenant.
- 1504 (in 'Christ the Physician') - Often Jesus asks the sick to believe. He makes use of signs to heal: spittle and the laying on of hands, mud and washing. The sick try to touch him, "for power came forth from him and healed them all." and so in the sacraments Christ continues to "touch" us in order to heal us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome back to Logical Bible Study podcast, which is all about doing a verse-by-verse |
| 0:17.8 | exegesis of the gospel reading from today's Mass, and we're currently |
| 0:21.9 | moving through the Gospel of Luke. So today we're looking at Luke chapter 6 verses 12 to 19. |
| 0:29.7 | Jesus went out into the hills to pray, and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. |
| 0:35.6 | When day came, he summoned his disciples and picked out 12 of them. He called them |
| 0:41.1 | apostles, Simon, whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, |
| 0:52.9 | James, son of Elfius, Simon the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Ascariot, |
| 0:59.3 | who became a traitor. He then came down with them and stopped at a piece of level ground, |
| 1:05.3 | where there was a large gathering of his disciples, with a great crowd of people from all parts of Judea and from Jerusalem |
| 1:12.4 | and from the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their |
| 1:18.8 | diseases. People tormented by unclean spirits were also cured, and everyone in the crowd |
| 1:25.2 | was trying to touch him because power came out of him that cured them all. |
| 1:31.8 | So that's our reading for today. |
| 1:33.4 | It's basically a recount of Jesus picking his 12 apostles. |
| 1:38.1 | What's the context here? |
| 1:39.3 | So Jesus has just begun his ministry in Galilee. |
| 1:42.7 | And he's just had disputes with the Pharisees about healing on the Sabbath. So all that has just happened his ministry in Galilee. And he's just had disputes with the Pharisees about |
| 1:45.7 | healing on the Sabbath. So all that has just happened in Luke chapter 6. And verse 12, most Bibles here |
| 1:52.1 | start with saying, in these days. So it's at the same time that Jesus is moving around Galilee, |
| 1:58.0 | Jesus went out into the hills to pray. So because Jesus is still in the |
| 2:03.0 | Galilee area, he's probably gone to the hills surrounding the Sea of Galilee. And we know that |
| 2:08.6 | Jesus does go to this area when he wants a bit of privacy or if he wants to pray. Now, some scholars |
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