{"id":26556,"date":"2020-12-02T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=26556"},"modified":"2020-11-29T18:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T17:36:29","slug":"wednesday-reflection-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-23\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mid-week Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2<sup>nd<\/sup> December 2020<\/p>\n<p>This week we celebrated the feast of Saint Andrew, Principal Patron of Scotland. Barbados, Ukraine,\u00a0Russia, Sicily, Greece, Cyprus and\u00a0Romania also claim his patronage! The Chronicler, Nestor, tells us that he preached \u00a0around the Black Sea, and also journeyed to Kiev and Novgorod and Russia.\u00a0 Sadly, he did not travel to Scotland, so how did it come about that we have such a strong claim on him?\u00a0\u00a0 In the 10th century\u00a0it was\u00a0believed that relics of the disciple had been brought from Constantinople to the town of St Andrews. Legend has it that the Picts and Scots were to fight a dreadfully one-sided battle against the Angles. The Scots prayed and vowed that if by some miracle they won the battle then they would appoint St Andrew as their patron saint. On the morning of the battle, white clouds in the shape of an X appeared in the sky, and the Scots were victorious!\u00a0John the Baptist, whose disciple Andrew had been, would have been pleased to see him become a disciple of the Lord.\u00a0 In fact, he was the first disciple of Jesus (Jn: 1.40). Jesus must have been doubly-delighted that Andrew brought his brother Peter with him.\u00a0 It was Andrew who pointed out the boy with the loaves and fishes. (Jn. 6:8-9)\u00a0 He was martyred on the noble wood of his holy X shaped cross in Achaia in Western Greece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let us Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lord God, you called Saint Andrew, your apostle, to preach the gospel and to guide your Church.\u00a0 We humbly pray that he may always plead for us in your presence. 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><em><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-week Reflection 2nd December 2020 This week we celebrated the feast of Saint Andrew, Principal Patron of Scotland. Barbados, Ukraine,\u00a0Russia, Sicily, Greece, Cyprus and\u00a0Romania also claim his patronage! The Chronicler, Nestor, tells<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-23\/\">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-26556","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\/26556","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=26556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26557,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556\/revisions\/26557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}