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Hi everyone. 
Welcome back to the logical. 

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Bible study podcast where we 
look at the Gospel, reading from

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the massive today, and we try to
do an exegesis on the text. 

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So really letting the text speak
on its own terms. 

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Today for this Sunday reading, 
we have another really, really 

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long section of text, just like 
we had last week. 

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And so once again, what I want 
to do is read out these verses, 

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those 20 verses to read today, 
just offer some general thoughts

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and then I'll point you towards 
other places in the podcast 

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where we're going to do a more 
in-depth exegesis on this exact 

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text. 
So today we're looking at 

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Matthew chapter 13 verses 24 to 
43. 

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So Matthew Chapter 13 is full of
All sorts of Parables. 

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And today we have quite a few 
parables in this one. 

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Reading the lectionary has put 
together and there's one quite 

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serious Parable here, in 
particular one that we don't 

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often talk about. 
So Matthew 13 verses 24 to 43. 

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Jesus put another Parable before
the crowds the Kingdom of Heaven

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may be compared to a man who 
sowed good seed in his field 

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while everybody was asleep. 
His enemy came. 

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So darn or among all the wheat 
and Madoff. 

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When the new weights, sprouted 
and ripened the Donnell appeared

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as well. 
The owners servants went to him 

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and said sir, was it not good 
seed that you served in your 

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field. 
If so, where does the Darnell 

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come from? 
Some enemy has done this, he 

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answered. 
And the servant said, do you 

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want us to go and weed it out? 
But he said, no, because when 

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you weed out the Donnell, you 
might pull up the wheat with it.

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Let them both grow till the 
Harvest. 

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And at Harvest time. 
I shall say to the Reapers, 

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first, collect the Donnell and 
tie it in bundles, to be burnt, 

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then gather the wheat into my 
barn. 

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He put another Parable before 
them. 

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The Kingdom of Heaven is like a 
mustard seed, which a man took 

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and sowed in his field. 
It is the smallest of all the 

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seeds but when it has grown it 
is the biggest shrub of all and 

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becomes a tree. 
So that the birds of the air 

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come and shelter in its 
branches. 

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He told them another Parable. 
The Kingdom of Heaven is like 

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the yeast. 
A woman took and mixed in with 

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three measures of flour until it
was leavened or through. 

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In all this Jesus, spoke to the 
crowd in Parables. 

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Indeed. 
He would never speak to them. 

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Except in Parables. 
This was to fulfill the 

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prophecy. 
I speak to you in Parables and 

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expound things hidden since the 
foundation of the world. 

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Then, leaving the crowds. 
He went to the house and his 

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disciples came to him and said, 
explain the parable about the 

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Donnell in the fuel to us. 
He said in reply the seller of 

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the good seed is the son of man.
The field is the world. 

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The Good Seed is the subjects of
the Kingdom. 

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The Donnell, the subjects of the
evil one. 

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The enemy who sowed them is the 
devil. 

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The Harvest is the end of the 
world. 

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The reapers are the Angels. 
Well, then just as the 

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Donnelly's gathered up and 
burned in the fire. 

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So it will be at the End of 
Time. 

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The son of man will send his 
angels and they will gather out 

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of his kingdom. 
All things that provoked 

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offenses and all who do evil and
throw them into the Blazing 

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furnace. 
Where there will be weeping and 

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grinding of teeth. 
Then The Virtuous will shine 

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like the sun in the Kingdom of 
their father. 

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Listen, anyone who hears? 
So we have here, another really 

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long reading. 
And if you remember last week, 

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it's actually a fairly similar 
form to last week. 

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We have a main long Parable at 
the start and then some other 

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things that happened in the 
middle. 

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And then the third section is 
Jesus giving us the 

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interpretation of the parable 
and here he gives us quite a 

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specific interpretation of the 
parable and we should be very 

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thankful for that because 
otherwise, it will be quite a 

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difficult Parable to understand.
He actually breaks down all of 

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the elements for us. 
So we're going to look at this 

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text more in. 
Tile in the weekdays of ordinary

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time in week 16 and 17. 
So we'll really get into the 

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text in more detail when we have
more time available to us to 

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break it down into smaller 
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So it's the end of week 16 and 
the start of week 17, will look 

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at these texts. 
But there's certainly a lot for 

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us to meditate on in these 
Parables about the kingdom of 

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heaven, and we learn a lot about
the kingdom of God, or the 

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Kingdom of Heaven, just based on
these parables in Matthew 13. 

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Let's now turn to look at some 
of the catechism passages where 

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the church has commented on 
Matthew chapter 13. 

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So, firstly, paragraph, 8 2 7. 
This is a paragraph. 

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We Don't often get to hear. 
This is a paragraph about the 

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church itself. 
And as you see here, the 

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catechism applies this Parable, 
which is about the world. 

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It applies it to the church 
about how the church contains 

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both good and evil people. 
So paragraph 8 2 7 of the 

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catechism Christ, holy innocent 
and undefiled knew nothing of 

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sin, but came only to expiate 
the sins of the people. 

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The church. 
However, clasping Sinners to her

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bosom at once. 
Holy and always in need of 

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purification follows constantly,
the path of repented, some 

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renewal all members of the 
church, including her ministers.

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Must acknowledge that they are 
sinners in everyone, the seeds, 

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the weeds of sin. 
Will be still mixed with a good 

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weight of the Gospel Until the 
End of Time. 

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Hence the church gathers Sinners
already caught up in Christ 

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salvation, but still on the way 
to Holiness the church is 

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therefore holy though having 
sinners in her midst because she

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herself has no other life, but 
the life of Grace, if they live 

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her life, her members are 
Sanctified. 

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If they move away from her life,
they fall into sins and 

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disorders that prevent the 
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And this is why she suffers and 
does penance. 

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For those offenses. 
For the church is where the 

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means of Salvation have been 
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It is in her that by the grace 
of God, we acquire holiness. 

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So, quite a beautiful paragraph 
in quite an informative 

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paragraph. 
Actually, about the nature of 

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the church about how it's going 
to contain good people, and 

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sinful people, even until the 
end of time, and also the people

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in the church themselves will 
contain mixed motive. 

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Sometimes. 
Paragraph 1034. 

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This is about HAL. 
What's one of those more 

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confronting teachings of the 
Catholic Church? 

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Jesus, often speaks of gehenna 
of the unquenchable fire 

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reserved for those who to the 
end of their lives, refuse to 

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believe, and be converted. 
We're both soul and body can be 

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lost. 
Jesus, solemnly, proclaims that 

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he will send his angels and they
will gather all evildoers and 

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throw them into the furnace of 
fire. 

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And that he will pronounce the 
condemnation. 

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Depart from me you cursed into 
the Eternal fire. 

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And then similarly paragraph 
333, the angels will be present 

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at Christ's return, which they 
will announce to serve at his 

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judgment. 
So this the main Parable here, 

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the parable of the wheat and the
tares is certainly one about 

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Judgment at the end of time. 
And we're look at this in more 

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detail in ordinary time, week, 
16 and 17 until then these 

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parables are really really good 
ones to meditate on. 

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So I'd encourage you to do that 
today. 

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