Wednesday of Week 23 in Ordinary Time - Luke 6: 20-26
Daily Gospel Exegesis
Logical Bible Study
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
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Luke 6: 20-26 - 'Happy are you who are poor, who are hungry, who weep.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 2444 (in 'Love for the Poor') - The Church's love for the poor . . . is a part of her constant tradition." This love is inspired by the Gospel of the Beatitudes, of the poverty of Jesus, and of his concern for the poor. Love for the poor is even one of the motives for the duty of working so as to "be able to give to those in need." It extends not only to material poverty but also to the many forms of cultural and religious poverty.
- 2546-2547 (in 'Poverty of Heart') - "Blessed are the poor in spirit." The Beatitudes reveal an order of happiness and grace, of beauty and peace. Jesus celebrates the joy of the poor, to whom the Kingdom already belongs: The Word speaks of voluntary humility as "poverty in spirit"; the Apostle gives an example of God's poverty when he says: "For your sakes he became poor." The Lord grieves over the rich, because they find their consolation in the abundance of goods. "Let the proud seek and love earthly kingdoms, but blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven." Abandonment to the providence of the Father in heaven frees us from anxiety about tomorrow. Trust in God is a preparation for the blessedness of the poor. They shall see God.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome to Logical Bible Study. This is the Catholic podcast where we do a verse-by-verse |
| 0:18.3 | exegesis of scripture, and in particular we look at the gospel readings |
| 0:22.6 | that you would hear at every day's mass. Today if you went to mass you would hear from Luke |
| 0:28.7 | chapter 6 verses 20 to 26 and there's a bit to say about this passage so we'll get straight into it. |
| 0:36.9 | Fixing his eyes on his disciples jesus said how happy are you who |
| 0:42.2 | are poor yours is the kingdom of god happy you who are hungry now you shall be satisfied happy you who |
| 0:50.8 | weep now you shall laugh happy are you when people hate you drive you out abuse you denounce your name as criminal |
| 0:59.9 | on the count of son of man rejoice when that day comes and dance for joy for then your reward will be great in heaven |
| 1:09.2 | this was the way their ancestors treated the prophets. |
| 1:14.3 | But alas for you who are rich, you are having your consolation now. |
| 1:19.9 | Alas for you who have had your fill now, you shall go hungry. |
| 1:25.3 | Alas for you who laugh now, you shall mourn and weep. Alas for you when the |
| 1:30.6 | world speaks well of you. This was the way their ancestors treated the false prophets. So as always, |
| 1:39.9 | in this podcast, our goal is to look at the literal sense of scripture. What did it probably |
| 1:43.8 | mean in its original context? |
| 1:46.3 | And obviously with the text like this, there's going to be a lot of spiritual applications |
| 1:50.5 | that could be correct, but we want to focus on the literal sense of scripture. |
| 1:56.0 | Now, we're looking today at what is the sermon on the plane or the start of what's called |
| 2:00.5 | the sermon on the plane. It's called what's called the sermon on the plane. |
| 2:01.9 | It's called this because in verse 17 just prior to this, it says Jesus came down with them |
| 2:06.9 | and stood on a level place. And the Greek word there for level place is sometimes translated |
| 2:12.1 | plain. Now there's a few problems with this name though, and one of the key problems is it's |
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