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Wednesday of Week 3 of Advent - Luke 7: 18b-23 Dec 17, 2024

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Luke 7: 18b-23 - 'Are you the one who is to come?'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 547 (in 'The Signs of the Kingdom of God') - Jesus accompanies his words with many "mighty works and wonders and signs", which manifest that the kingdom is present in him and attest that he was the promised Messiah.

- 453 (in 'And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord') - The title "Christ" means "Anointed One" (Messiah) .Jesus is the Christ, for "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power" (Acts 10:38). He was the one "who is to come" (Lk 7:19), the object of "the hope of Israel" (Acts 28:20).

- 544 (in 'The Kingdom of God is at hand') - The kingdom belongs to the poor and lowly, which means those who have accepted it with humble hearts. Jesus is sent to "preach good news to the poor"; he declares them blessed, for "theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (abbreviated).

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3rd Sunday of Advent (Year C) - Luke 3: 10-20 Dec 14, 2024

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Luke 3: 10-18 - 'Someone is coming who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 535 (in 'The Baptism of Jesus') - Jesus' public life begins with his baptism by John in the Jordan. John preaches "a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins". A crowd of sinners - tax collectors and soldiers, Pharisees and Sadducees, and prostitutes - come to be baptized by him (abbreviated).

- 2447 (in 'Love for the Poor') - The works of mercy are charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily necessities. Instructing, advising, consoling, comforting are spiritual works of mercy, as are forgiving and bearing wrongs patiently. the corporal works of mercy consist especially in feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, and burying the dead. Among all these, giving alms to the poor is one of the chief witnesses to fraternal charity: it is also a work of justice pleasing to God.

- 696 (in 'Symbols of the Holy Spirit') - John the Baptist, who goes "before [the Lord] in the spirit and power of Elijah," proclaims Christ as the one who "will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." Jesus will say of the Spirit: "I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled!" (abbreviated).

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Monday of Week 2 of Advent - Luke 5: 17-26 Dec 08, 2024

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Luke 5: 17-26 - 'Your sins are forgiven you: get up and walk.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 1116 (in 'The Sacraments of Christ') - Sacraments are "powers that comes forth" from the Body of Christ, which is ever-living and life-giving. They are actions of the Holy Spirit at work in his Body, the Church. They are "the masterworks of God" in the new and everlasting covenant.

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2nd Sunday of Advent (Year C) - Luke 3: 1-6 Dec 07, 2024

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Luke 3: 1-6 - 'The call of John the Baptist.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 535 (in 'The Baptism of Jesus') - Jesus' public life begins with his baptism by John in the Jordan. John preaches "a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins" (abbreviated).

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1st Sunday of Advent (Year C) - Luke 21: 25-28, 34-36 Nov 30, 2024

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Luke 21: 25-28, 34-36 - 'That day will be sprung on you suddenly, like a trap.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 671 (In 'until all things are subjected to him') - Though already present in his Church, Christ’s reign is nevertheless yet to be fulfilled “with power and great glory” by the king’s return to earth. This reign is still under attack by the evil powers, even though they have been defeated definitively by Christ’s Passover (abbreviated).

- 697 (In 'symbols of the Holy Spirit') - Finally, the cloud took Jesus out of the sight of the disciples on the day of his ascension and will reveal him as Son of man in glory on the day of his final coming (abbreviated).

- 2612 (in 'Jesus teaches us how to pray') - In Jesus "the Kingdom of God is at hand." He calls his hearers to conversion and faith, but also to watchfulness. In prayer the disciple keeps watch, attentive to Him Who Is and Him Who Comes, in memory of his first coming in the lowliness of the flesh, and in the hope of his second coming in glory. In communion with their Master, the disciples' prayer is a battle; only by keeping watch in prayer can one avoid falling into temptation.

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Feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle - Matt 4: 18-22 Nov 29, 2024

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Matthew 4: 18-22 - 'I will make you fishers of men.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 878 (In 'The Hierarchy of the Church') - Finally, it belongs to the sacramental nature of ecclesial ministry that it have a personal character. Although Christ’s ministers act in communion with one another, they also always act in a personal way. Each one is called personally: “You, follow me” in order to be a personal witness within the common mission, to bear personal responsibility before him who gives the mission, acting “in his person” and for other persons: “I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit . . .”; “I absolve you. . . .”

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Solemnity of Christ the King (Year B) - John 18: 33-38 Nov 23, 2024

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John 18: 33b-37 - 'Yes, I am a king.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 549 (in 'The Signs of the Kingdom of God') - By freeing some individuals from the earthly evils of hunger, injustice, illness and death, Jesus performed messianic signs. Nevertheless he did not come to abolish all evils here below, but to free men from the gravest slavery, sin, which thwarts them in their vocation as God's sons and causes all forms of human bondage.

- 600 (in 'Jesus handed over the according to the definitive plan of God') - To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore he establishes his eternal plan of "predestination", he includes in it each person's free response to his grace: "In this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place." For the sake of accomplishing his plan of salvation, God permitted the acts that flowed from their blindness.

- 217 (in 'God is Truth') - God is also truthful when he reveals himself - the teaching that comes from God is "true instruction". When he sends his Son into the world it will be "to bear witness to the truth" (abbreviated).

- 559 (in 'Jesus' messianic entrance into Jerusalem') - Jesus conquers the Daughter of Zion, a figure of his Church, neither by ruse nor by violence, but by the humility that bears witness to the truth (abbreviated).

- 2471 (in 'To Bear Witness to the Truth') - Before Pilate, Christ proclaims that he "has come into the world, to bear witness to the truth." The Christian is not to "be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord." In situations that require witness to the faith, the Christian must profess it without equivocation, after the example of St. Paul before his judges. We must keep "a clear conscience toward God and toward men."

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November 2024 Feedback Nov 18, 2024

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This is a bonus episode, where we go through some listener feedback that has been sent into the ministry.

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33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) - Mark 13: 24-32 Nov 16, 2024

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Mark 13: 24-32 - 'The stars will fall from heaven and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 474 (in 'Christ's Soul and his human knowledge') - By its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal. What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal.

- 673 (in 'The glorious advent of Christ, the hope of Israel') - Since the Ascension Christ's coming in glory has been Imminent, even though "it is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority. This eschatological coming could be accomplished at any moment, even if both it and the final trial that will precede it are "delayed".

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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) - Mark 12: 38-44 Nov 09, 2024

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Mark 12: 38-44 - 'The poor widow has put in more than all.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 678 (in 'To Judge the Living and the Dead') - Following in the steps of the prophets and John the Baptist, Jesus announced the judgement of the Last Day in his preaching. Then will the conduct of each one and the secrets of hearts be brought to light. Then will the culpable unbelief that counted the offer of God's grace as nothing be condemned. Our attitude to our neighbour will disclose acceptance or refusal of grace and divine love. On the Last Day Jesus will say: "Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me."

- 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" (abbreviated).

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