{"id":26026,"date":"2020-06-17T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=26026"},"modified":"2020-06-16T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T10:33:31","slug":"wednesday-reflection-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-10\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mid-week Reflection:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time<\/p>\n<p>The bishop has given an extended dispensation from attending Holy Mass on Sundays and Holydays of Obligation.\u00a0 Why is it necessary for him to do so?\u00a0 Because, unless we have a genuine excusing cause such as sickness or caring for the seriously sick, then, we have a duty and\u00a0 privilege of attending Mass each Sunday.\u00a0 It is a duty and a privilege because each time Mass is celebrated, <em><strong>\u201cwhenever you eat this bread and drink this cup you are heralding the Lord\u2019s death until He comes\u201d <\/strong><\/em><em>(<\/em>1 Cor 11:26).\u00a0 Just think of this, leaving aside the notion of <strong><em>obligation<\/em><\/strong>, \u00a0each time we have Mass in our beautiful school oratory, we are transported mystically and sacramentally to Calvary.\u00a0 We are now only thirteen years away from celebrating the two-thousandth anniversary of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.\u00a0 How blessed you will be to live until then!\u00a0 An event two thousand years ago which is the price of our salvation. The Gift from God who loves us so much. The Gift of the Eucharist enables us to rid ourselves of all that is messy, all that is immoral, all that is sinful in our lives. This may not be easy to do. But by faithfully receiving the Body and Blood of Our Lord, Jesus will give us the strength necessary to complete in our lives, that for which God made us.\u00a0That\u2019s why we need to attend Holy Mass\u2026..and to do so lovingly, willingly, eagerly and not simply because of an obligation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let us Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption. Through Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-week Reflection: Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time The bishop has given an extended dispensation from attending Holy Mass on Sundays and Holydays of Obligation.\u00a0 Why is it necessary for him to do<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-10\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2931,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26028,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26026\/revisions\/26028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}