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Learn more about The Mass Readings Explained > Transcript: Let’s go back to the question about the Mass. This passage was another point of controversy in the 16th century with the Protestant reformers, especially with Martin Luther. A lot of times Catholics today, when they talk about the Protestant Reformation or they talk about the debates of the Reformation, will frequently focus on the debate over the Real Presence — over transubstantiation, for example. There were different theories of the Real Presence at the time of the Reformation. Was He just spiritually present ..read more

Learn more about The Mass Readings Explained >   Dr. Brant Pitre connects the baptism of Jesus to the crucifixion in order to show why Jesus needed to be baptized. https://catholicproductions.com/blogs/mass-readings-explained-year-b/the-baptism-of-the-lord-year-b Transcript: ...there’s your connection between the Old Testament, psalm, and the Gospel reading for today. Now, it’s brief, but it’s powerful to think about...and I’d actually like to close out with a quote from Pope Benedict XVI. This is one of my favorite quotes from his three-volume book, Jesus of Nazareth—w ..read more

Learn more about The Mass Readings Explained >   Dr. Brant Pitre discusses Jesus calling his disciples to be "fishers of men" to the prophecy of the gathering of the lost tribes of Israel in Jeremiah 16. Subscribers to the Mass Readings Explained can access the full video here: https://catholicproductions.com/blogs/mass-readings-explained-year-b/the-third-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-b Transcript: What would it have meant to become fishers of men in the first century A.D.?  Well on the one hand, you can see this just as a simple metaphor, right.  Obviously, wh ..read more

Catholic Productions · The Moral Implications of the End of the World Learn more about The Mass Readings Explained > Transcript (from 2nd Sunday of Advent, Year B 2nd Reading): Thankfully, Peter does not leave them there. He says, “Okay, so if that’s going to happen, what’s the Christian response to the doctrine of the end of the world?” And he says: Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness… So this is really crucial for us to understand—that eschatology has a moral implication. Eschatology is n ..read more

Learn more about The Mass Readings Explained >   Dr. John Bergsma looks at the Qumran community and the Dea Sea Scrolls. What does it reveal to us about the language of the kingdom and covenant used by Jesus at the Last Supper ..read more

Learn more about The Mass Readings Explained >   Dr. Brant Pitre discusses Hebrews 9 and how God instructs Moses to build the Tabernacle so that it will be a copy of heaven. Subscribers to Dr. Pitre's Mass Readings Explained can find the full video here: https://catholicproductions.com/blogs/mass-readings-explained-year-b/the-thirty-third-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-b Transcript: …one of the key concepts that’s necessary to understand the letter to the Hebrews — the logic of the letter to the Hebrews — is the ancient Jewish belief that there were two temples...the eart ..read more

Learn more about The Mass Readings Explained >   Dr. Brant Pitre gives some insight regarding conquering anger in your life. Subscribers to Dr. Pitre's Mass Readings Explained can find the full video here: https://catholicproductions.com/blogs/mass-readings-explained-year-b/the-nineteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-b Transcript: What about just the moral side of it? There’s another line from St. Gregory the Great, and I’ll end with this. When Paul talks about the virtues that Christians are called to of kindness and gentleness and forgiveness toward one another, St. G ..read more

Learn more about The Mass Readings Explained >   Dr. Brant Pitre discusses the two comings of Jesus and how meditating on the first can prepare us for the second. Subscribers to Dr. Pitre's Mass Readings Explained can find the full video here: https://catholicproductions.com/blogs/mass-readings-explained-year-b/the-first-sunday-in-advent-year-b Transcript: In closing then I would like to just share with you two last thoughts from the living tradition.  One of them is on the difference between the two comings of Christ that we are celebrating during the Advent seaso ..read more