‘Reading Matthew in Lent’ was a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season, 2020, that offered a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
13th April 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading Chapter 28 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
Early on Sunday morning the women go to the tomb and are met by an angel who tells them that Jesus is risen from the dead and instructs them to meet Jesus in Galilee. The disciples go to the mountain in Galilee where Jesus instructed them to âmake disciples of all nationsâ and he promised âI am with you always, to the end of the ageâ.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
10th April 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading Chapter 27 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
Jesus is taken before Pilate who shows him to the crowd. They call for Jesus to be crucified and he is led to Golgotha where he is mocked by those around him. Joseph of Arimathea takes the dead body of Jesus and buries it in a tomb.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
9th April 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading Chapter 26 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
Before the events of Jesusâ passion and death his feet are anointed in the house of Simon the Leper. Following supper with his disciples at which he gives himself Jesus goes to Gethsemane to pray and there is he is arrested. He is brought to appear before Caiaphas and the Council.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
8th April 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading Chapter 25 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
Jesusâ last parable is about the last judgment which he pictures as the division of sheep and goats. He asks what people have done to help the poor and the needy â those who have helped the least have welcomed Jesus.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
7th April 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading Chapter 25 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
Jesus tells two parables about the coming of the Son of Man. In the first ten virgins wait at a wedding feast to escort the bridegroom. In the second a master goes on a journey, before he goes he gives his servant money (talents), when he comes back he sees what his servants have done and judges accordingly.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
6th April 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading Chapter 24 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
Jesus talks to his disciples on the Mount of Olives about the ending of the age and the coming of the Son of Man. He warns them to stay awake and be ready for no one know the day or the hour.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
3rd April 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading Chapter 23 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
As the crowds in Jerusalem gather around Jesus he speaks of the Scribes and Pharisees in a series of seven âwoesâ which condemn them for their hypocrisy and double standards. The chapter ends with Jesus lamenting for Jerusalem itself.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
2nd April 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading Chapter 22 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
Jesus continues to teach the crowds in a variety of ways. Through the parable of the wedding feast where many are called but few are chosen. In response to questions about paying taxes to Caesar and about the nature of the resurrection. A lawyer then asks Jesus which is the greatest commandment.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
1st April 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading the second part of Chapter 21 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
In the second parable of the vineyard Jesus speaks about the tenants who reject the servants of the owner and finally take and kill the son.
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‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
31st March 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading the first part of Chapter 21 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
As Jesus approaches Jerusalem he makes preparation for his entry. The crowd welcome him with shouting and by waving branches. He enters the Temple and overturns the tables of the money-changers and them heals the blind and the lame. Jesus tells the first of two parables about a vineyard where he speaks of tax collectors and prostitutes entering the kingdom of heaven because they respond to Godâs mercy.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
30th March 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading Chapter 20 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
Jesus tells the parable of the labourers in the vineyard to show that the last shall be first. For the third time he foretells his own death and resurrection. In response to request from the mother of two of the disciples Jesus says that the Son of Man can not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
27th March 2020
We continue our âReading Matthew in Lentâ series today by reading Chapter 19 of St Matthewâs Gospel.
In the crowds which follow Jesus there are those, the Pharisees, who are seeking to test him with questions on divorce, and those who seek to learn from Jesus, such as the rich young man who despite his keeping the commandments find Jesusâ invitation to sell all his possessions hard to follow. At the heart of the chapter Jesus blesses children of whom he says the kingdom of heaven belongs.
‘Reading Matthew in Lent‘ is a series of simple podcasts for the Lenten season offering a daily reading from St Matthew’s Gospel from Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday.
