{"id":26760,"date":"2020-12-16T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=26760"},"modified":"2020-12-15T18:38:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T17:38:18","slug":"wednesday-reflection-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-25\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mid-week Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">16<sup>th<\/sup> December 2020<\/p>\n<p>This last Reflection of 2020 points to the person of St John of the Cross, a Priest and Doctor of the Church, known to many of our students who have travelled with the school to Salamanca and Avila over the years but, sadly, but not this year! St John died this week in 1591.\u00a0but still seems a fitting saint to show us what it means to wait for the coming of the Lord with patience. In the midst of turmoil throughout the Church in the sixteenth century, St. John of the Cross worked with St. Teresa of Avila to correct unfaithful Catholics and unfaithful reformers.\u00a0 In so doing, they faced a great deal of direct opposition from those opposed to the reformation of the Church from within.\u00a0 St. John and St. Teresa were members of the Carmelite order.\u00a0 Sadly, their reform efforts were met, even by members of their own Order, with\u00a0 great opposition.\u00a0 St. John of the Cross, for example, was unlawfully imprisoned by his fellow Carmelites for nine months in a cell only six feet by ten feet in size.\u00a0 This imprisonment ended only because of his escape. Reform always encounters opposition from those content with laxity or who are unwilling to face up to fresh challenges.\u00a0 Those who most vigorously oppose reform very often do so knowing that the reformer is right!\u00a0 In our braver moments, we might desire our personal reform but something in our make-up meets with opposition from within ourselves! We have become used to, and comfortable with, our own vices and our desire for comfort.\u00a0 Advent nights may still be dark but the light will come again.\u00a0 Not just the light of day but the Light of Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let us Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Faith and Love lead us along a path unknown to us, to a place where you are hidden.\u00a0 Lord, you let blind people see &#8211; help me, too, to see.\u00a0 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 16th December 2020 This last Reflection of 2020 points to the person of St John of the Cross, a Priest and Doctor of the Church, known to many of our<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-25\/\">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-26760","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\/26760","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=26760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26761,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26760\/revisions\/26761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}