{"id":26370,"date":"2020-10-07T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=26370"},"modified":"2020-10-04T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T11:57:45","slug":"wednesday-reflection-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-16\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our Lady of the Rosary 7<sup>th<\/sup> October 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Diocese of Paisley, Bishop Keenan has very successfully promoted devotion to Our Lady of Paisley in honour of the inscription in Paisley Abbey, \u201cHac ne vade via nisi dixeris Ave Maria. Sit semper sine via, qui non tibi dicet Ave.\u201d This translates as \u201cGo not this way unless you have said Ave Maria. Let him always a wanderer be who will not say Ave to thee.\u201d \u00a0In St Cadoc\u2019s parish, the Children\u2019s Rosary Group have a devotion to Our Lady of the Pond, because her statue stands on the edge of the pond in the presbytery garden.\u00a0 A recent arrival in the garden of St Aidan\u2019s in Johnstone, where I now live, is a statue of Our Lady of Grace which we have entitled Our Lady of the Fuchsias not because of an interest in Leonhard Fuchs, the German physician and botanist for whom the shrub is named but simply because the shrine is surrounded by fuchsia bushes.\u00a0 Then, of course, we have the graceful statue of Our Lady in St Ninian\u2019s school courtyard in a beautiful garden setting.\u00a0 Regardless of which of her many titles we love, somehow praying the Rosary in such settings lends itself to meditation on the mysteries of Christ following the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary who, as the Scottish Ordo has it, was in a special manner, associated with the incarnation, passion and glorious resurrection of the Son of God. During this month, for sure, we will honour Our Lady with our Rosaries.\u00a0 But is that enough? What if we merely recite the Rosary without bearing any spiritual fruit?\u00a0 Mary did not say \u201cno\u201d to God\u2019s invitation.\u00a0 Her \u201cyes\u201d led her on to bear fruit.\u00a0 To become \u201cfull of grace.\u201d\u00a0 To be \u201cBlessed among women.\u201d She was able to do this because, as the Scriptures tell us, \u201cShe pondered these things in her heart.\u201d\u00a0 She spent time in the Lord\u2019s vineyard.\u00a0 She knew what it was to be a good steward. She teaches us to love, to sacrifice, and to ponder His love.\u00a0 Because she said \u201cYes\u201d, her Son would save the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let us Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lord, open our heats to your grace.\u00a0 May we, who learned to believe, through the angel\u2019s message, in the incarnation of Christ your Son, be brought by his passion and cross, at the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to the glory of his resurrection. We ask this through Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monsignor Monaghan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lady of the Rosary 7th October 2020 In the Diocese of Paisley, Bishop Keenan has very successfully promoted devotion to Our Lady of Paisley in honour of the inscription in Paisley<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-16\/\">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-26370","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\/26370","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=26370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26371,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26370\/revisions\/26371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}