{"id":26542,"date":"2020-11-25T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=26542"},"modified":"2020-11-23T22:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:28:40","slug":"wednesday-reflection-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-22\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mid-week Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">25<sup>th<\/sup> November 2020<\/p>\n<p>This week we celebrate the feast of Saint Andrew D\u0169ng-L\u1ea1c a Vietnamese priest who was born almost at the end of the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 Andrew, of course, was his baptismal name and he took on the name Lac which apparently initially helped him during the persecution. \u00a0But at the age of 44 he was executed by\u00a0beheading\u00a0in the reign of\u00a0Minh M\u1ea1ng as were some of his companions.\u00a0 Over 261 years 130,000 Christians suffered martyrdom and Pope Leo XIII, Pope Saint Pius X and Pope Pius XII recognised this when they beatified them in different groups between 1900 and 1951 and and they were canonised all together by Pope Saint John Paul II in 1988.\u00a0 11 of the martyrs were Spanish Dominicans and 10 were French missionaries. All the rest, 37 priests and 59 lay people, were\u00a0 from Vietnam but collectively they are known as the Martyrs of the Church of Vietnam.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a little sad note.\u00a0 At the canonisation in Rome there was no delegation from the communist regime in Vietnam. But 8000 Vietnamese in exile participated as representatives for their catholic countrymen in Vietnam, who not were allowed to leave the country.\u00a0You might not know this but Bishop McGill, the second Bishop of Paisley, at the time of his ordination as a Sulpician Priest, had volunteered to go to Hanoi in\u00a0the northern region of Vietnam,.\u00a0 But the Lord, it seems, had other things in mind for him.\u00a0 The plan God has for us might surprise us but in embracing what God wants for us into effect, \u00a0He offers us everlasting life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let us Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almighty God, you you kept the blessed martyrs Andrew and his companions faithful to the cross of your Son even to the shedding of their blood.\u00a0 Through their intercession enable us to spread your love that we may be truly be called your sons and daughters. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, 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 25th November 2020 This week we celebrate the feast of Saint Andrew D\u0169ng-L\u1ea1c a Vietnamese priest who was born almost at the end of the 18th century.\u00a0 Andrew, of course,<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-22\/\">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-26542","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\/26542","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=26542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26544,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542\/revisions\/26544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}