This is VLX 101, the Leaven of the Pharisees. We are in Matthew chapter 16, verses 5 through 12.

VLX stands for Video Lexi Divina, the online patristic Bible study, and free guide to Ignatian mental prayer.

God give you his peace and nomi apatria, saffiti, it's bithi, amen. God, our Lord, we ask the grace that all of our intentions, actions, and operations

be directed purely to the service and praise of your divine majesty.

And nomi apaches, Sifidi, it's bitty to santi, amen.

When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread.

Jesus said to them,

Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees,

and they began discussing it among themselves, saying,

We brought no bread.

But Jesus aware of this said,

Oh, you have little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves

the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves

for the 5,000 and how many baskets you gathered? Or the 7 loaves for the 4,000 and how many

baskets you gathered? How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about

bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Then they understood that he did not

tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel. The first verse, When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any

bread.

I want to jump right into the imaginative way of prayer here.

Father Lopide tells us it is plain from the circumstances that this event happened in the

ship and also that this was on the way to Bethsaida

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