{"id":26436,"date":"2020-11-04T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=26436"},"modified":"2020-11-01T16:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:50:14","slug":"wednesday-reflection-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-19\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mid-week Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">4<sup>th<\/sup> November 2020<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how often you have said there are not enough hours in the day or days in the week to do all the things I would like to do.\u00a0 Well, here\u2019s a thought\u2026.there are not enough days in the year to give each of the Canonised Saints a day of honour to themselves. With great joy, we can add to that conundrum, the number of saintly men and women who are relatively unknown but have lived their lives close to Jesus.\u00a0 The Church recognised this officially in the Year of Our Lord, 840 when the Feast of All Saints, named and un-named, was established.\u00a0\u00a0 In our school community, there are some who are hugely gifted\u2026..academically, socially, theatrically, musically, lovingly and so on.\u00a0 The majority of us probably count ourselves as fairly average.\u00a0 But all of us, without exception, have within us the possibility to grow in holiness and become saints. \u00a0God has bestowed His grace upon each one of us and equips us with the ability to succeed.\u00a0 Sometimes young people are canonised; St Maria Goretti, St. Aloysius de Gonzaga and St. Dominic Savio come to mind.\u00a0 Others will be someday, and we can help them by our prayers; Bl. Carlo Acutis and Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati come to mind.\u00a0 But there are many others, mostly unknown to us, and this week, we honour them, too.\u00a0 Have you thought of this? Each time we pray\u00a0 the Apostles\u2019 Creed, we profess our belief in the Communion of Saints.\u00a0 We can be encouraged by the feast of All Saints as they gives us hope that, where they are now, we also might be after our deaths, <strong><em>if<\/em><\/strong> we persevere in the virtues of faith, hope and divine charity on this earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> Did the Saints and Blesseds mentioned in this article come to your mind? If not, Google!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let us Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almighty ever-living God, by whose gift we venerate in one celebration the merits of all the Saints, bestow on us, we pray, through the prayers of so many intercessors, an abundance of the reconciliation with you for which we earnestly long.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-week Reflection 4th November 2020 I wonder how often you have said there are not enough hours in the day or days in the week to do all the things I would<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-19\/\">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":[11,454308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-faith-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436","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=26436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26438,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436\/revisions\/26438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}