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This podcast is a Scripture Study based on the interpretation of the Church Fathers
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- 2 days ago22 min
Exodus 20.3 The Lord's Name and His Day
We continue looking at the Catechism of the Catholic Church in understanding what it means to not take the name of the Lord in vain and what it means to keep holy the Sabbath.
- 6 days ago21 min
Matthew 16.5 The Petrine Office Established
We continue exploring the exchange between Simon Bar-Jonah and Jesus. In this exchange we look back into the Old Testament and how Jesus giving Simon a new name- Petros or Peter/Rock has significance, but more importantly the office of chief Steward or vicar/prime minister/vizer, all having essentially the same meaning. That is that this one office is one that is established that has the full authority of the king. That authority is the authority to bind and loose. Now that Jesus has established the twelve officers of the New Davidic Kingship in Jesus, one has the unique authority, the one to be a rock or a "peg in a sure place."
- 1 weeks ago23 min
Exodus 20.2 "Hear O Israel..."
We breakdown the ten commandments from the perspective of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. We see the hierarchy of the commandments and explore in depth the first Commandment from Exodus, Deuteronomy, and as we have rendered it in traditional Catechetical Formula. The Ten Commandments are the codified natural moral law and were not abrogated by Christ as we read in Scripture, for not one iota or tittle of the law will pass away, for the Word shall not pass away.
- 1 weeks ago22 min
Matthew 16.4 Son of Jonah, the Rock
Jesus calls Simon, "Simon son of Jonah." But there is a problem, Simon's father's name is John, not Jonah. But earlier, Jesus refers to himself as Jonah. So what does this mean? Did Jesus make a mistake? That would be impossible, but instead, Jesus is revealing to us the structure of His kingdom, appointing the chief steward of the Church. And then Jesus goes on to call Simon, Peter, the Rock.
- 2 weeks ago20 min
Exodus 20.1 The Ten Commandments
What are the ten commandments? What are they really? Is it prohibitions on one's freedom or a response of love to the One who loved us first? Since Christ, are people still bound by the ten commandments? We look to St. Augustine for some guidance as well as St. Paul and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.
- 2 weeks ago21 min
Matthew 16.3 Peter's Declaration That Jesus is the Christ Part 1
Jesus takes the Apostles to Caesarea Philippi and asks, "Who do men say that I am? and But who do you say that I am?" Peter's confession has many parts and we begin to to explore the depth of this exchange between Peter and Jesus. Peter's response is informative and gives us the the seed of the founding of the Church and Peter's office. We explore the hypostatic union of Christ and what that means. We hear from St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom and St. Hilary.
- 3 weeks ago18 min
Exodus 19.3 The Dark Night of the Soul
Moses enters the dark cloud on Mt. Sinai and speaks to the Lord. What is God doing with the trumpet blasts, the cloud and fire, lightning and thunder? Consider who the Hebrews are at this stage of their relationship with God and where they had been for four hundred and thirty years. They were in a culture of pagan pantheism, the many gods of Egypt and slavery to just basic survival. God is calling them and bringing them out of that to freedom to be in right relationship with him, and not as a slave master relationship, but rather as sons and daughters; a family. But this takes time and as a parent teaches a child from infancy to adulthood, God is approaching the Hebrew people in the same way. They are infants spiritually and so the concrete, the sense perceptions are the first way in which he interacts with them so they get rule one: "I Am God, the only one." Moses can enter the dark night of the soul as signified by entering the cloud.
- 3 weeks ago19 min
Matthew 16.2 Leaven, Bread, and the Rock
Jesus walks away from the Pharisees and Sadducees and then gets into the "boat" with the Apostles and warns them about the "leaven" of the Pharisees. then Jesus takes them to a particular place to pose the question, "Who do men say the Son of Man is?" and then, "Who do you say that I am?" We begin our discussion of Jesus' question to his disciples, which is the question to all of us.
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