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It's the Feast of St. Matthew, 2nd Class, with the color of Red. In this episode: the meditation: "The Love of God for Us", today's news from the Church: "The Jesuits leave Liège, 450 years after their arrival", a preview of the Sermon: "The Power of Humility", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org

Sources Used Today:

• "The Love of God for Us" — From the Assumption to Advent
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• "The Jesuits leave Liège, 450 years after their arrival" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/belgium-jesuits-leave-liege-450-years-after-their-arrival-61143
  
  
• "The Power of Humility" (SSPX Sermons)
  • SSPX YouTube: Sermons Playlist
  • Listen & Subscribe: SSPX Sermons Podcast
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

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Saint Matthew has one of the shortest conversion stories in the Gospel.

Jesus walks past a tax booth, sees Matthew sitting there, and says, "Follow Me."

Matthew gets up and goes.

But there's much more packed into that moment than it first appears.

Matthew was a publican, a tax collector working within the Roman system. Tax collectors were deeply disliked, partly because they cooperated with the occupying power and partly because the system gave plenty of opportunity for corruption. To respectable Jewish society, Matthew was not an obvious candidate for an Apostle.

Jesus chose him anyway.

And Matthew's first reaction is interesting.

He threw a dinner.

He invited Jesus, the disciples, and a collection of tax collectors and other people respectable society labeled "sinners." Matthew had only just begun following Christ, but he was already bringing his friends along.

After Pentecost, Matthew disappears from the New Testament record, and this is where ancient traditions begin to diverge.

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