To support the ministry and get access to exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy Matthew 14: 13-21 - 'The feeding of the five thousand.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 1335 (in 'The Signs of Bread and Wine') - The miracles of the multiplication of the loaves, when the Lord says the blessing, breaks and distributes the loaves through his disciples to feed the multitude, prefigure the superabundance of this unique bread of his Eucharist (abbreviated). - 1329...
Aug 11, 2023•17 min
To support the ministry and get access to exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy Matthew 15: 1-2, 10-14 - 'Any plant my Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.' Got a Bible question? Send an email to logicalbiblestudy@gmail.com, and it will be answered in an upcoming episode!
Aug 08, 2023•24 min
To support the ministry and get access to exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy Matthew 14: 22-36 - 'Jesus walks on the water.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 448 (in 'Lord') - Very often in the Gospels people address Jesus as "Lord". This title testifies to the respect and trust of those who approach him for help and healing. At the prompting of the Holy Spirit, "Lord" expresses the recognition of the divine mystery of Jesus. In the encounter with the ri...
Aug 07, 2023•24 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Matthew 17: 1-9 - 'His face shone like the sun.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 554 (in 'A Foretaste of the Kingdom - The Transfiguration') - From the day Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Master "began to show ...
Aug 05, 2023•19 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Matthew 13: 44-52 - 'He sells everything he owns and buys the field.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 546 (in 'The Proclamation of the Kingdom of God') - Jesus' invitation to enter his kingdom comes in the form of parables, a characteristic feature of...
Jul 29, 2023•27 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Matthew 13: 24-43 - 'Let them both grow till the harvest.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 827 (in 'The Church is Holy') - "Christ, 'holy, innocent, and undefiled,' knew nothing of sin, but came only to expiate the sins of the people. the Church, howe...
Jul 22, 2023•9 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Matthew 13: 1-23 - 'A sower went out to sow.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 546 (in 'The Proclamation of the Kingdom of God') - Jesus' invitation to enter his kingdom comes in the form of parables, a characteristic feature of his teaching. Through h...
Jul 15, 2023•12 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Matthew 11: 25-30 - 'You have hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to little children.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 2603 (in 'Jesus Prays') - The evangelists have preserved two more explicit prayers offered by Christ during his p...
Jul 08, 2023•24 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Matthew 10: 37-42 - 'Anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 2232 (in 'The Family and the Kingdom') - Family ties are important but not absolute. Just as the child grows to maturity and human and spiritu...
Jul 01, 2023•18 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Matthew 10: 26-33 - 'Do not be afraid of those who kill the body.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 363 (in 'Body and Soul but Truly One') - In Sacred Scripture the term "soul" often refers to human life or the entire human person. But "soul" also r...
Jun 24, 2023•20 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p John 16: 5-11 - 'Unless I go, the advocate will not come to you.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 2611 (In 'Jesus teaches us how to pray') - The prayer of faith consists not only in saying “Lord, Lord,” but in disposing the heart to do the will of ...
Jun 17, 2023•24 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Matthew 11: 25-30 - 'You have hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to little children.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 2603 (in 'Jesus Prays') - The evangelists have preserved two more explicit prayers offered by Christ during his p...
Jun 15, 2023•24 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Matthew 9: 9-13 - 'It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 581 (in 'Jesus and the Law') - The Jewish people and their spiritual leaders viewed Jesus as a rabbi. He often argued within the framework ...
Jun 10, 2023•16 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p John 6: 51-58 - 'My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 2837 (in 'Give us this day our Daily Bread') - "Daily" (epiousios) occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. Taken in a temporal sense, this word is...
Jun 07, 2023•30 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p John 3: 16-18 - 'God sent his Son into the world so that through him the world might be saved.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 219 (in 'God is love') - God's love for Israel is compared to a father's love for his son. His love for his people is st...
Jun 03, 2023•16 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p John 17: 1-11a - 'Father, it is time for you to glorify me.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 2746-2749 (in 'The Prayer of the Hour of Jesus') - When "his hour" came, Jesus prayed to the Father. His prayer, the longest transmitted by the Gospel, emb...
May 20, 2023•28 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Matthew 28: 16-20 - 'Go and make disciples of all nations.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 849 (in 'Mission - a requirement of the Church's catholicity') - The missionary mandate. "Having been divinely sent to the nations that she might be 'the un...
May 17, 2023•27 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p John 14: 15-21 - 'I shall ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 729 (in 'Christ Jesus') - Only when the hour has arrived for his glorification does Jesus promise the coming of the Holy Spirit, since ...
May 13, 2023•20 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p John 14: 1-12 - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 151 (in 'To Believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God') - For a Christian, believing in God cannot be separated from believing in the One he sent, his "beloved So...
May 06, 2023•27 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p John 10: 1-10 - 'I am the gate of the sheepfold.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 754 (in 'Symbols of the Church') - "The Church is, accordingly, a sheepfold, the sole and necessary gateway to which is Christ. It is also the flock of which God hims...
Apr 29, 2023•23 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Luke 24: 13-35 - 'They recognised him at the breaking of the bread.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 1094 (in 'The Holy Spirit prepares for the reception of Christ') - It is on this harmony of the two Testaments that the Paschal catechesis of the L...
Apr 22, 2023•25 min
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p Matthew 28: 1-10 - 'He has risen from the dead and now he is going before you into Galilee.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 500 (in 'Mary ever-virgin') - Against this doctrine the objection is sometimes raised that the Bible mentions brothers and...
Apr 07, 2023•17 min
Want to support the ministry and get access to exclusive content? Go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy Note: At the Palm Sunday Mass, there are 2 different gospel readings - one 'Palm Sunday' gospel which is read as part of the entrance procession, and one 'Passion' gospel which is read at the normal gospel time. This episode will focus on the Palm Sunday gospel. Matthew 21: 1-11 - 'Blessings on he who comes in the name of the Lord!' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 559 (in ...
Apr 01, 2023•27 min
To support the ministry and get access to exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy Luke 11: 1-45 - 'I am the resurrection and the life.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 994 (in 'The Progressive Revelation of the Resurrection') - But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It is Jesus himself who on the last day will raise up those who have believed in him, who have eaten his body and drunk ...
Mar 25, 2023•14 min
To support the ministry and get access to exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy Luke 9: 1-41 - 'The blind man went off and washed himself, and came away with his sight restored.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 1151 (in 'Signs and Symbols') - In his preaching the Lord Jesus often makes use of the signs of creation to make known the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. He performs healings and illustrates his preaching with physical signs or symbolic gestures (...
Mar 18, 2023•12 min
To support the ministry and get access to exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy John 4: 5-42 - 'A spring of water welling up to eternal life.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 544 (in 'The Proclamation of the Kingdom of God') - Jesus shares the life of the poor, from the cradle to the cross; he experiences hunger, thirst and privation. Jesus identifies himself with the poor of every kind and makes active love toward them the condition for entering his kingd...
Mar 11, 2023•12 min
To support the ministry and get access to exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy Matthew 17: 1-9 - 'His face shone like the sun.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 554 (in 'A Foretaste of the Kingdom - The Transfiguration') - From the day Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Master "began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things. . . and be killed, and on the third day be raised." Peter scor...
Mar 04, 2023•19 min
To support the ministry and get access to exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy Matthew 4: 1-11 - 'The temptation in the wilderness.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 394 (in 'The Fall of the Angels') - Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning", who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father (abbreviated) - 2849 (in 'The Seven Petitions') - Such a battle and such a vi...
Feb 25, 2023•21 min
To support the ministry and get access to exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy Matthew 5: 38-48 - 'Love your enemies.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 2443 (in 'Love for the Poor ') - God blesses those who come to the aid of the poor and rebukes those who turn away from them: "Give to him who begs from you, do not refuse him who would borrow from you" (abbreviated) - 1933 (in 'Social Justice') - This same duty extends to those who think or act differently...
Feb 18, 2023•31 min
To support the ministry and get access to exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy Matthew 7: 17-37 - 'You have learnt how it was said to our ancestors, but I say this to you.' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 577 (in 'Jesus and the Law') - At the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus issued a solemn warning in which he presented God’s law, given on Sinai during the first covenant, in light of the grace of the New Covenant: "Do not think that I have come ...
Feb 11, 2023•12 min
