WEDNESDAY REFLECTION
Mid-week Reflection
18th November 2020
This week we celebrated the Feast of Saint Margaret of Scotland, the secondary Patron Saint of our country, who was actually born in Hungary round about the middle of the 11th century. She was given in marriage to King Malcolm III of Scotland and they were blessed with a large family of eight children. She was a good wife, a wonderful mother and a noble queen who was outstanding in her care for the poor. All these virtues arose from her devotion to prayer and learning. Before marrying Margaret, Malcolm was a fairly rough diamond. Long before the joy and hope expressed in the pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world (Gaudium et spes), Margaret had taught her husband that the, “intimate union in the mutual self-giving of two persons, as well as the good of the children, demands full fidelity from both, and an indissoluble unity between them.”
Margaret certainly gained the reward of her industry and all of us, aware of our Christian dignity and involved in the life of St Ninian’s High School, receive similar grace when we put into effect our good resolutions, affections and inspirations.
Let us Pray:
Almighty God, you made Saint Margaret of Scotland outstanding for her great love of the poor. Following her example and helped by her prayers may we, by our lives, bear witness to your goodness and love. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Monsignor Monaghan
