{"podcast":{"title":"Catholic Daily Reflections","slug":"catholic-daily-reflections-334651","podcast_index_feed_id":334651,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/3075404/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/daily-reflections/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7b39fdb7e7c686686759baf76d12f617.jpg","author":"My Catholic Life!","episode_count":1000,"summary":"My Catholic Life! presents the beauty and splendor of our Catholic faith in a down to earth and practical way. These daily audio reflections come from the \"Catholic Daily Reflections Series\" which is available in online format from our website. They are also available in e eBook or paperback format. May these reflections assist you on your journey of personal conversion!","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T10:21:05.460042+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-daily-reflections-334651"},"episode":{"title":"Monday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time - Seeing is Believing?","slug":"monday-of-the-twenty-third-week-in-ordinary-time-seeing-is-believing","published_at":"2026-09-06T09:00:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-daily-reflections-334651/monday-of-the-twenty-third-week-in-ordinary-time-seeing-is-believing","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-daily-reflections-334651","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/monday-of-the-twenty-third-week-in-ordinary-time-seeing-is-believing--73194476","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73194476/monday_of_the_twenty_third_week_in_ordinary_time_seeing_is_believing_1.mp3","summary":"Read Online Seeing is Believing? On a certain sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him closely to see if he would cure on the sabbath so that they might discover a reason to accuse him. But he realized their intentions and said to the man with the withered hand, “Come up and stand before us.” And he rose and stood there. Luke 6:6–8 Even on the surface, the thinking and actions of the Pharisees are absurd. They had become blinded by their jealousy for power and envy of Jesus. This is clearly evident in the fact that they were hoping Jesus would perform a miraculous healing on the Sabbath—not because they desired a man to be healed or longed to see divine authority at work, but because they had decided that miracles were considered “work” and, therefore, a violation of the Sabbath law of rest. The absurdity of their reasoning is shocking. Even an atheist who witnessed a miraculous healing would find it difficult to explain away or ignore. Only the Creator, who established the laws of nature, is capable of bending those laws at will. What makes the Pharisees such a pitiful group of men is not that they disbelieved Jesus’ miracles, but that they believed and intentionally rejected the meaning of those miracles. Miracles were, in part, signs of Jesus’ divine identity. The Pharisees clearly witnessed the sign with their own eyes, but what they saw was not able to purge their self-centeredness. Rather than worship Jesus, they rejected Him and began to plan His destruction. Imagine being there in the synagogue, witnessing the miraculous healing of this man’s hand. Being a local synagogue, the people present most likely had known the man for years, and his withered hand w…","meta_description":"Read Online Seeing is Believing? On a certain sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. T…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":453,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/catholic-daily-reflections-334651/episodes/monday-of-the-twenty-third-week-in-ordinary-time-seeing-is-believing/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-daily-reflections-334651/monday-of-the-twenty-third-week-in-ordinary-time-seeing-is-believing.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}