{"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":"Thursday of Week 7 of Eastertide - John 17: 20-26","slug":"thursday-of-week-7-of-eastertide-john-17-20-26","published_at":"2026-05-20T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-gospel-exegesis-774948/thursday-of-week-7-of-eastertide-john-17-20-26","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-gospel-exegesis-774948","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daily-gospel-exegesis/episodes/Thursday-of-Week-7-of-Eastertide---John-17-20-26-eef235","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1025ef1c/podcast/play/14173733/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-5-7%2F106eabec-c412-7270-3211-7ca46d19e7b1.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 John 17: 20-26 - 'Father, may they be completely one.'' Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs: - 260 (in 'The Divine Works and the Trinitarian Missions') - The ultimate end of the whole divine economy is the entry of God's creatures into the perfect unity of the Blessed Trinity. But even now we are called to be a dwelling for the Most Holy Trinity: \"If a man loves me\", says the Lord, \"he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him\": - 877 (in 'Why the Ecclesial Ministry?') - Likewise, it belongs to the sacramental nature of ecclesial ministry that it have a collegial character. In fact, from the beginning of his ministry, the Lord Jesus instituted the Twelve as \"the seeds of the new Israel and the beginning of the sacred hierarchy.\" Chosen together, they were also sent out together, and their fraternal unity would be at the service of the fraternal communion of all the faithful: they would reflect and witness to the communion of the divine persons. For this reason every bishop exercises his ministry from within the episcopal college, in communion with the bishop of Rome, the successor of St. Peter and head of the college. So also priests exercise their ministry from within the presbyterium of the diocese, under the direction of their bishop. - 820 (in 'Toward Unity') - \"Christ bestowed unity on his Church from the beginning. This unity, we believe, subsists in the Catholic Church as something she can never lose, and we hope that it will continue to increase until the end o…","meta_description":"To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy⁠⁠⁠⁠ For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries f…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1440,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-gospel-exegesis-774948/episodes/thursday-of-week-7-of-eastertide-john-17-20-26/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/thursday-of-week-7-of-eastertide-john-17-20-26.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}