{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Gospel Exegesis","slug":"daily-gospel-exegesis-774948","podcast_index_feed_id":774948,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1025ef1c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/2609215/2609215-1688782386235-f2b7b7169957.jpg","author":"Logical Bible Study","episode_count":497,"summary":"This is a short daily podcast, where we go through an exegesis of the gospel reading from the current day's Mass. The Catholic Church teaches that in order to understand the Scriptures, we must start with the literal sense - in other words, how the original hearers of the text would have understood it. That is our aim in this podcast - to help understand what the gospel writers (and more importantly, Jesus) were intending to communicate in today's reading, as well as providing links to the Catechism. Each episode is short and designed to be listened to before or after attending daily Mass.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T08:17:03.005151+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-gospel-exegesis-774948"},"episode":{"title":"Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Year A) - Matt 11: 25-30","slug":"solemnity-of-the-most-sacred-heart-of-jesus-year-a-matt-11-25-30","published_at":"2026-06-11T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-gospel-exegesis-774948/solemnity-of-the-most-sacred-heart-of-jesus-year-a-matt-11-25-30","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-gospel-exegesis-774948","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daily-gospel-exegesis/episodes/Solemnity-of-the-Most-Sacred-Heart-of-Jesus-Year-A---Matt-11-25-30-efc1ur","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1025ef1c/podcast/play/15123867/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-10-15%2F46c3b7b8-6f85-941c-a177-de698fc780f5.mp3","summary":"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 public ministry. Each begins with thanksgiving. In the first, Jesus confesses the Father, acknowledges, and blesses him because he has hidden the mysteries of the Kingdom from those who think themselves learned and has revealed them to infants, the poor of the Beatitudes. His exclamation, \"Yes, Father!\" expresses the depth of his heart, his adherence to the Father's \"good pleasure,\" echoing his mother's Fiat at the time of his conception and prefiguring what he will say to the Father in his agony. the whole prayer of Jesus is contained in this loving adherence of his human heart to the mystery of the will of the Father. - 2701 (in 'Vocal Prayer') - Vocal prayer is an essential element of the Christian life. To his disciples, drawn by their Master's silent prayer, Jesus teaches a vocal prayer, the Our Father. He not only prayed aloud the liturgical prayers of the synagogue but, as the Gospels show, he raised his voice to express his personal prayer, from exultant blessing of the Father to the agony of Gesthemani. - 2785 (in 'Abba-Father') - Second, a humble and trusting heart that enables us \"to turn and become like children\": for it is to \"little children\" that the Father is revealed. [The prayer is accomplished] by the contemplation of God alone, and by the warmth of love, throu…","meta_description":"To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: ⁠⁠⁠http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy⁠⁠⁠ For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries fro…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1451,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-gospel-exegesis-774948/episodes/solemnity-of-the-most-sacred-heart-of-jesus-year-a-matt-11-25-30/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-gospel-exegesis-774948/solemnity-of-the-most-sacred-heart-of-jesus-year-a-matt-11-25-30.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}