Gospel of Catechist
I. DOCTRINAL OBJECTIVE: To know and deepen this Gospel of Matthew
II. LIVING OBJECTIVE: meditate, trying to experience tell me about this gospel.
III. THESIS: The Gospel of Matthew is addressed to prove that Jesus is the Messiah foretold by the prophets and that He fulfilled all that the prophets had announced. In Matthew he is painted with the image of a man, because his Gospel begins by listing the ancestors that Jesus was a man.
IV. EXPLANATION OF THE THESIS:
1. Author, date and target
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was employed, possibly orders of Herod. Tax collector for the king. Was chosen by God to be one of the twelve close. I wrote between 80-90, probably in Antioquia, the capital of Syria. I went to a Christian community these features:
a) is a community of Jewish origin: hence literary style, the mentality, the allusions are essentially Hebrew.
b) is a community that is opposed to Judaism:
hence the polemic against the Pharisees and the Jewish people in general (cf. Mt 23, 1-26), attached to the traditions and narrow-mindedness. Presents Jesus as the one perfected Judaism. c) is a community that seeks its identity among Jews and pagans. At first the majority of Christians were converted Jews, but soon the pagans were the largest group. There was everything: charismatic and legalistic, prophets and wise, strong and weak one anchored in law enforcement, others preferred the praise, but disconnected from life.
d) is a community that is open to pagans not forget that Antioquia, where perhaps the writing of this gospel, was the center of the spread of the early Church. From the beginning, the Gospel speaks of the mission to the pagan worship Jesus wizards (2, 1-12), are all invited to the banquet (22.9), are pagans who confess their faith, as the Canaanite woman (15 , 21-28) or Centurion (8, 5-11), the gospel must be proclaimed to all nations (28, 19), must look to the scattered sheep of Israel (10, 6, 15, 24).
2. Literary characteristics
a)
Matthew wrote his Gospel first in Hebrew or Aramaic, then Greek. So has many Hebrew expressions, came from a Jewish community. b) composed his gospel from three sources: the Gospel of Mark, the source of "Words of Jesus" or first or source Mateo Q
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, and other information themselves.
c)
His style is characterized by brevity and clarity, when speaking of the facts, as long stretches in the speeches of Jesus. Compared to Mark, Matthew removes details, names, deleted the marginal.
d) 
3. Division and thematic content There is a geographical pattern:
+ An Introduction: Gospel of childhood (1-2)
+ Start of public life (3-4)
+ Ministry in Galilee (5-15)
+ Ministry out of Galilee (15-18)
+ Ministry in Jerusalem (19-23) Eschatological discourse
+ (24-25)
+ Passion and victory (26-28)
There is also another structure:
+ A prologue: infancy narrative
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(1 - 2) + Transition: Preparing the United (3-4)
+ The Kingdom of God has come (5-9) + Jesus sent to preach and preach the same path to the Kingdom (10-12)
+ The decisive to the preaching of the Kingdom (13-17) + The Kingdom of God passes the Jewish people to the Church (18-23)
+ The inauguration of the Kingdom of God in the Easter event (24-28)
4. Theological and spiritual content
End of the Gospel of Matthew: is called the gospel church because it tries to be a Christian in the community. Also called the Gospel of the catechist because it presents a broad and well-organized material on the teaching of Jesus, for the instruction of someone who has traveled the catechumenate stage and wants to live and baptism in the Church. Give a catechism of the Kingdom.
Key: a)
Among Christians and Judaism raised some questions: What group was the true people of God? What group played Law directly? Where was the true interpretation of Scripture, and especially the messianic promises? For Judaism, the Israel remained true people, the Jews were the heirs of the promises, so they possessed the true interpretation of the law for Christians: the Christian community was the true heir of God's people, the promises, the true interpreter of Scripture.
b) addition, Matthew's Christian communities had internal problems to adjust their lives to the guidance of Jesus. Are facing difficulties to remain faithful to the Gospel, face erroneous doctrines: community members are not sufficiently educated. c)
Despite this, the community of Antioch already has internal cohesion, is a church where there are some ministries and their coexistence is regulated. In this community took up residence Peter for some years.
Content:
a) Jesus
In Mark Jesus is the Son of God-man who acts, in Matthew is the God-man who teaches, who speaks of the Father and His plan of salvation.
What are the faces of the Jesus of Matthew? Jesus is the new Moses, especially in its teachings
and speeches. The new Moses, a new law that gives many details of the children remember the life of Moses, as Moses, the birth is announced by a dream as Pharaoh look for ways to prevent the birth of Moses, Herod also, the new Pharaoh provide for the elimination of Jesus (Ex 1, 15-16). Pharaoh consulted his astrologers, like Herod the scribes. In both cases, the Kings decided to kill all the children (Ex 3, 14-15), but both Moses and Jesus escaped the massacre. The order given to Joseph is very similar to that received by Moses (Exodus 4, 19-23). The five great discourses of Matthew evoke the five books of the Law of Moses (Pentateuch) the story of the transfiguration clearly presents Jesus as the new Moses (17, 1-4).
Jesus is the Son of God:
to which we must turn to the difficulties (Mt 14, 33) and proclaim with firmness (Mt 16, 16) and recognize in the crucified (27, 54).
Jesus is the Son of man
identified with all the persecuted, with small, poor (25, 36-46).
Jesus is the Son of David:
that fulfills the promise to David. Is the Messiah, Savior.
Jesus is the servant who takes our infirmities:
It is a glorious Messiah, but a Servant Messiah.
Jesus is Lord of the community:
is the Master who founded and built the new Community-Church in Peter and the apostles.
b) The United
Jesus preached the Kingdom of God. Is the theme that is largest in San Mateo, proclaims its proximity and its arrival. It has a dual phase: earthly and eschatological. Appears as a dynamic community of salvation, which involves essentially spiritual goods.
The program of this Kingdom:
Sermon on the Mount (5-7): is the letter of the Master program for the new Kingdom which aims to establish: how to be belonging to this kingdom, what are the new values \u200b\u200bof the Kingdom: humility, generosity, gentleness, purity, mercy, suffering, persecution, abandonment in the hands of Divine Providence.
How is this Kingdom.
Parables (13): is seed, yeast, is a precious pearl, etc.
c) Church (14-17) All the preaching about the Kingdom was aimed at the foundation of his Church. The Church would be the beginning of the visible Kingdom on earth. Jesus is first removed and is focusing its ecclesiastical activity in the group of disciples, especially Peter, who begins to have special importance, such as preparing his role in the Church. Jesus calls his people around Peter. A confession of Peter, Jesus responds with a greeting and a very special view to the Church entrusted with the mission to be the foundation of the new community: the Church. Matthew presents a Church open, plural, trying to withdraw from the schemes of Judaism, which is acquiring internal cohesion, which is released to evangelize to other people and you have in your heart to Peter, whom Jesus entrusted the security of your message and communion and firmness in the faith of all the "brothers."
features of this Church are: the presence of Christ in the community, the proclamation of the word, its essentially spiritual (although with implications for human and social order, deriving the precept of charity, foundation of all living and social reform) and its universal nature, announced and by the prophets.
demands:
conversion (radical decision to accept the person of Jesus and his message), faith and personal commitment to Christ, to be revealed in the staff to follow and imitate Christ, the new justice, than the Old Testament, and better than that of the scribes and Pharisees, who had reduced to mere formality religion without true inner spirit, new justice comes to be summarized in the love of God and love neighbor.
d) Paschal Mystery (24-28)
Paschal Mystery inaugurated the Kingdom. That is, to give life to this new kingdom, the Church, he had to give his life, because that was the plan of the Father. Matthew wants to stress that Jesus is a righteous persecution, the Servant of Yahweh in Isaiah, and condemn those who do nothing but comply with "what was written."
V. CONCLUSION: are an important detail not overlooked Matthew: "The veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom" (27, 51). It was the curtain that separated the Holy of Holies and the death of Jesus was torn, to signify, as understood in the tradition of the Church, that the old Mosaic worship was over and began a new era, the New covenant in the blood of the Son of God. With her man opened the possibility of being reborn to new life, leaving behind the fear and all forms of pessimism, because the death had been overcome for Life.
VI. PRAYER:
Lord, I recognize as the Messiah promised in the Old Testament. I ask the grace to go in my life reflecting the Beatitudes, which are the portrait of someone who wants to follow. Amen. _____________________________
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Q source was a collection of speeches of Jesus, known by Mark, and is used by St. Matthew, like Luke.
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begins his Gospel with the genealogy, which at that time played an important role in the identity of a person as belonging to justify the chosen people. Matthew is concerned to show that Jesus is the Messiah foretold by the Scriptures, the true descendant of Abraham, the true son of David, who enjoyed all the favors of God. Three groups of 14 names each of us leading from Abraham to Jesus, Matthew plays with the symbolic value of numbers: 3 symbolizes the fullness of time and the number 14 is symbolic of David (the three consonants of the name DAVID: DWD are the fourth and sixth letters of the alphabet Hebrew, adding they are 4 +6 +4 14) showing that Jesus is the real David.
PARTICIPATION ITEM 1. Why is regarded Matthew as the evangelist of the Church?
2. What mainly characterizes the Gospel of St. Matthew?
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