{"id":26342,"date":"2020-09-30T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=26342"},"modified":"2020-09-29T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:01:00","slug":"wednesday-reflection-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-15\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Jerome 30<sup>th<\/sup> September 2020<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very possible that the reader is unaware of St. Jerome.\u00a0 His is not a name that children tend to adopt for their Confirmation Saint and yet he was the subject of a painting, now in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, entitled \u201cSt Jerome in his study\u201d by the famous artist, Caravaggio.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, Jerome featured in the works of many of the great artists between the 15<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> centuries, such as Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and Leonardo da Vinci.\u00a0 Jerome came from Dalmatia to study in Rome and it was there that he received the Sacrament of Baptism.\u00a0 Later in life, he also received the Sacrament of Holy Orders and became the Secretary of Pope Damasus I.\u00a0 Later still, he moved to the East and there founded a monastery, a hospice and a school.\u00a0 There was something, however, yet to come which surpassed all these achievements.\u00a0 In what came to be known as the Vulgate, along with Greek sources, he translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin and wrote commentaries on the Gospels\u2026.a monumental task which resonates in the Church to this day.\u00a0 There was something else which seems quite apt and admirable in these difficult days.\u00a0 The barbarian invasions caused terrible troubles and in those dreadful days, he helped the refugees and all those in need.\u00a0 In our dreadful days we may not be asked to take on a monumental translation but we can all do our bit for refugees and those in need.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let us Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almighty and eternal God, you endowed Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church, with a deep reverence for Holy Scripture, which he loved with all his heart.\u00a0 Sustain us ever more with your word and help us to find in it the source of life.\u00a0 We ask this through Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Jerome 30th September 2020 It\u2019s very possible that the reader is unaware of St. Jerome.\u00a0 His is not a name that children tend to adopt for their Confirmation Saint and yet<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-15\/\">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-26342","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\/26342","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=26342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26343,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342\/revisions\/26343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}