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St. Irenaeus Ministries

David Higbeewww.siministries.org
Coming to you from the St. Irenaeus Center in Rochester, NY, these lessons give insightful, meaningful, and practical teaching on Scripture from an orthodox Catholic perspective.
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Episodes

Leviticus - Lecture 26

Keeping the Sabbath and holy days. Israelite feasts and their connection to the New Testament.

Nov 20, 201827 min

Leviticus - Lecture 25

This part focuses primarily on the expectations and conduct of the priesthood in the time of Leviticus. Acceptable and unacceptable sacrifices to God.

Nov 13, 201828 min

Leviticus - Lecture 24

Proper behavior towards strangers and other disadvantaged persons. Penalties for breaking the law. The universal call to holiness.

Nov 06, 201818 min

Leviticus - Lecture 23

Holiness as separation. Strictures against mistreating slaves and various forms of idolatry.

Oct 30, 201820 min

Leviticus Lecture 22

The remaining commandments are discussed. Proper treatment of one's neighbor is described in detail. An understanding of the treatment of loans, wages, and retribution derived from the commandments.

Oct 23, 201816 min

Leviticus Lecture 21

The Ten Commandments are discussed. The obligations of the Jews to God is explained in detail.

Oct 16, 201828 min

Leviticus Lecture 20

A discussion of Leviticus chapter 18 (and Acts 15) focusing on laws regarding sexual immorality, idolatry, gentiles, and homosexuality.

Oct 09, 201826 min

Leviticus Lecture 19

Condemnation of the offering of blood to satyrs. Strictures regarding unclean meat and the slaughtering of animals far from the tabernacle.

Oct 02, 201822 min

Leviticus Lecture 18

The prescriptions for properly slaughtering a sacrificial animal. Avoidance of creeping idolatry.

Sep 25, 201819 min

Leviticus Lecture 16 - Purity Laws

Delving into laws that are foreign to our modern way of thinking, and understanding ritual impurity, moral impurity, profanity, and the conditions for coming into God's holy realm.

Sep 11, 201825 min

Leviticus Lecture 7 - Purification and Communion

Celebratory meals of fellowship are done with others and with God, foreshadowing the Eucharistic sacrifice. However, they require one to be ritually clean and unstained by sin, similar to how the Eucharist requires us to be in a state of grace. Yet God is eager for us to seek that forgiveness.

Jul 11, 201822 min

Leviticus Lecture 5 - Offerings

Sacrifice commonly has a connotation as a loss to Westerners, but in Leviticus it can be done for all the reasons of prayer: for thanksgiving, for mourning, for please for forgiveness or help. Sacrifice makes prayer concrete. By the way, last week I accidentally reposted the same content as a new episode. I'm sorry for the mistake!

Jun 27, 201822 min

Leviticus Lecture 3 - Structure of the Book

The book is divided into parts: It describes a mechanism God gives to heal our brokenness through sacrifice. It describes a priesthood provided to the people as a buffer between humanity and God's awesome holiness. Finally it oultines a standard for how we can know what is true or false, helpful or hurtful even today.

Jun 05, 201817 min

Leviticus Lecture 2 - Metaphors of Holiness

Metaphors of holiness are discussed, especialy the relationship between whole and holiness. God is calling us back to holiness and wholeness. The main theme of Leviticus is that God is holy: that is, separated from evil and all defect. His holiness is not mere supreme ethics but supreme divinity. Finally there are some notes on skeptical critical scholars who suggest Leviticus was written long after Moses.

May 29, 201823 min

Leviticus Lecture 1 - The Call to Holiness

Leviticus is a difficult book. It is seemingly a tedious book of regulations. However, each rule is an example of how we are called to holiness. It is concrete guidance from God that is still relevant to Christians today.

May 22, 201819 min

Ezekiel Lecture 37 - Water from the Temple

Ezekiel illustrates a life-giving river flowing from the Temple. Overall This description of a Temple encourages us to read more from Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy to understand Jewish worship to appreciate the description of the Temple and the Mass. This is the last episode of the Ezekiel study, thank you for listening.

Apr 30, 201816 min

Ezekiel Lecture 36 - The Holy and the Common

God will place the Levites who presided over idolatry in the lesser roles of his temple, whereas the loyal sons of Zadok will minister directly to God. There will be strict separation between what is holy and what is common.

Apr 10, 201812 min
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