Hi everyone. Welcome back to the logical.
Bible study podcast where we look at the Gospel, reading from
the massive today, and we try to do an exegesis on the text.
So really letting the text speak on its own terms.
Today for this Sunday reading, we have another really, really
long section of text, just like we had last week.
And so once again, what I want to do is read out these verses,
those 20 verses to read today, just offer some general thoughts
and then I'll point you towards other places in the podcast
where we're going to do a more in-depth exegesis on this exact
text. So today we're looking at
Matthew chapter 13 verses 24 to 43.
So Matthew Chapter 13 is full of All sorts of Parables.
And today we have quite a few parables in this one.
Reading the lectionary has put together and there's one quite
serious Parable here, in particular one that we don't
often talk about. So Matthew 13 verses 24 to 43.
Jesus put another Parable before the crowds the Kingdom of Heaven
may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field
while everybody was asleep. His enemy came.
So darn or among all the wheat and Madoff.
When the new weights, sprouted and ripened the Donnell appeared
as well. The owners servants went to him
and said sir, was it not good seed that you served in your
field. If so, where does the Darnell
come from? Some enemy has done this, he
answered. And the servant said, do you
want us to go and weed it out? But he said, no, because when
you weed out the Donnell, you might pull up the wheat with it.
Let them both grow till the Harvest.
And at Harvest time. I shall say to the Reapers,
first, collect the Donnell and tie it in bundles, to be burnt,
then gather the wheat into my barn.
He put another Parable before them.
The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took
and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all the
seeds but when it has grown it is the biggest shrub of all and
becomes a tree. So that the birds of the air
come and shelter in its branches.
He told them another Parable. The Kingdom of Heaven is like
the yeast. A woman took and mixed in with
three measures of flour until it was leavened or through.
In all this Jesus, spoke to the crowd in Parables.
Indeed. He would never speak to them.
Except in Parables. This was to fulfill the
prophecy. I speak to you in Parables and
expound things hidden since the foundation of the world.
Then, leaving the crowds. He went to the house and his
disciples came to him and said, explain the parable about the
Donnell in the fuel to us. He said in reply the seller of
the good seed is the son of man. The field is the world.
The Good Seed is the subjects of the Kingdom.
The Donnell, the subjects of the evil one.
The enemy who sowed them is the devil.
The Harvest is the end of the world.
The reapers are the Angels. Well, then just as the
Donnelly's gathered up and burned in the fire.
So it will be at the End of Time.
The son of man will send his angels and they will gather out
of his kingdom. All things that provoked
offenses and all who do evil and throw them into the Blazing
furnace. Where there will be weeping and
grinding of teeth. Then The Virtuous will shine
like the sun in the Kingdom of their father.
Listen, anyone who hears? So we have here, another really
long reading. And if you remember last week,
it's actually a fairly similar form to last week.
We have a main long Parable at the start and then some other
things that happened in the middle.
And then the third section is Jesus giving us the
interpretation of the parable and here he gives us quite a
specific interpretation of the parable and we should be very
thankful for that because otherwise, it will be quite a
difficult Parable to understand. He actually breaks down all of
the elements for us. So we're going to look at this
text more in. Tile in the weekdays of ordinary
time in week 16 and 17. So we'll really get into the
text in more detail when we have more time available to us to
break it down into smaller chunks.
So it's the end of week 16 and the start of week 17, will look
at these texts. But there's certainly a lot for
us to meditate on in these Parables about the kingdom of
heaven, and we learn a lot about the kingdom of God, or the
Kingdom of Heaven, just based on these parables in Matthew 13.
Let's now turn to look at some of the catechism passages where
the church has commented on Matthew chapter 13.
So, firstly, paragraph, 8 2 7. This is a paragraph.
We Don't often get to hear. This is a paragraph about the
church itself. And as you see here, the
catechism applies this Parable, which is about the world.
It applies it to the church about how the church contains
both good and evil people. So paragraph 8 2 7 of the
catechism Christ, holy innocent and undefiled knew nothing of
sin, but came only to expiate the sins of the people.
The church. However, clasping Sinners to her
bosom at once. Holy and always in need of
purification follows constantly, the path of repented, some
renewal all members of the church, including her ministers.
Must acknowledge that they are sinners in everyone, the seeds,
the weeds of sin. Will be still mixed with a good
weight of the Gospel Until the End of Time.
Hence the church gathers Sinners already caught up in Christ
salvation, but still on the way to Holiness the church is
therefore holy though having sinners in her midst because she
herself has no other life, but the life of Grace, if they live
her life, her members are Sanctified.
If they move away from her life, they fall into sins and
disorders that prevent the radiation of her sanctity.
And this is why she suffers and does penance.
For those offenses. For the church is where the
means of Salvation have been deposited.
It is in her that by the grace of God, we acquire holiness.
So, quite a beautiful paragraph in quite an informative
paragraph. Actually, about the nature of
the church about how it's going to contain good people, and
sinful people, even until the end of time, and also the people
in the church themselves will contain mixed motive.
Sometimes. Paragraph 1034.
This is about HAL. What's one of those more
confronting teachings of the Catholic Church?
Jesus, often speaks of gehenna of the unquenchable fire
reserved for those who to the end of their lives, refuse to
believe, and be converted. We're both soul and body can be
lost. Jesus, solemnly, proclaims that
he will send his angels and they will gather all evildoers and
throw them into the furnace of fire.
And that he will pronounce the condemnation.
Depart from me you cursed into the Eternal fire.
And then similarly paragraph 333, the angels will be present
at Christ's return, which they will announce to serve at his
judgment. So this the main Parable here,
the parable of the wheat and the tares is certainly one about
Judgment at the end of time. And we're look at this in more
detail in ordinary time, week, 16 and 17 until then these
parables are really really good ones to meditate on.
So I'd encourage you to do that today.
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