Wednesday of Week 15 in Ordinary Time - Matt 11: 25-27

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

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Matthew 11: 25-27 - 'You have hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to little children.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2603 (in 'Jesus Prays') - The evangelists have preserved two more explicit prayers offered by Christ during his public ministry. Each begins with thanksgiving. In the first, Jesus confesses the Father, acknowledges, and blesses him because he has hidden the mysteries of the Kingdom from those who think themselves learned and has revealed them to infants, the poor of the Beatitudes. His exclamation, "Yes, Father!" expresses the depth of his heart, his adherence to the Father's "good pleasure," echoing his mother's Fiat at the time of his conception and prefiguring what he will say to the Father in his agony. the whole prayer of Jesus is contained in this loving adherence of his human heart to the mystery of the will of the Father.

- 2701 (in 'Vocal Prayer') - Vocal prayer is an essential element of the Christian life. To his disciples, drawn by their Master's silent prayer, Jesus teaches a vocal prayer, the Our Father. He not only prayed aloud the liturgical prayers of the synagogue but, as the Gospels show, he raised his voice to express his personal prayer, from exultant blessing of the Father to the agony of Gesthemani.

- 2785 (in 'Abba-Father') - 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. [The prayer is accomplished] by the contemplation of God alone, and by the warmth of love, through which the soul, molded and directed to love him, speaks very familiarly to God as to its own Father with special devotion (abbreviated).

- 240 (in 'The Father Revealed by the Son') - Jesus revealed that God is Father in an unheard-of sense: he is Father not only in being Creator; he is eternally Father by his relationship to his only Son who is eternally Son only in relation to his Father: "No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

- 473 (in 'Christ's Soul and his human knowledge') - But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God's Son expressed the divine life of his person. "The human nature of God's Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God." Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to logical Bible study, where we try to take a logical approach to the
0:18.3	scriptures. And in particular in this podcast, we're looking at the
0:21.7	gospels, and particularly the gospel readings that are read each day from the Catholic Mass.
0:27.4	So we're doing a Catholic approach to scripture, looking at the literal sense of the text,
0:32.5	so really diving in in an academic way to what the text is trying to teach to its original audience.
0:39.3	And this is a really helpful way of studying the scriptures, because it helps us get out what God may have intended through these words,
0:46.3	and it certainly helps us grow in our understanding of faith.
0:49.3	So today we're looking at Matthew chapter 11, verse 25 to 27.
0:57.0	Here is the reading for today.
0:59.8	Jesus exclaimed, I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
1:04.8	for hiding these things from the learned and the clever, and revealing them to mere children.
1:11.1	Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do.
1:14.9	Everything has been entrusted to me by my father, and no one knows the son except the father.
1:21.6	Just as no one knows the father except the son, and those to whom the son chooses to reveal him.
1:29.4	So we have this really interesting prayer today in verses 25 to 27.
1:33.8	It's a prayer that Jesus himself prays to the father.
1:37.3	And that prayer sounds very similar to language which Jesus uses in the gospel of John.
1:42.1	You'll often hear in John, this intimate language of
1:45.5	divine sonship in relation to the Father and how Jesus as the Son has come to reveal the Father's
1:51.6	will. But here we have very, very similar language here in Matthew. Often you'll hear scholars say
1:58.0	that John has put words in Jesus' mouth, as though John is just a
2:01.4	theological reflection of maybe what Jesus was on about, but not things Jesus actually said.
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