{"id":26933,"date":"2021-01-27T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=26933"},"modified":"2021-01-24T22:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T21:58:45","slug":"wednesday-reflection-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-28\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mid-week Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>27<sup>th<\/sup> January 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just before Christmas, I finished a course of catechetics with some of the sixth year pupils.\u00a0 We were studying. \u201cQuestions Jesus Asks\u201d and the conclusion was that he did so not to elicit information.\u00a0 After all, He is God and, therefore, knows the answer.\u00a0 No! Jesus asks a question rather to teach us something about ourselves.\u00a0 We have to face up to the question\u2026..and its consequences.\u00a0 Perhaps we have to face up to the <strong><em>answer<\/em><\/strong>\u2026.and its consequences!<\/p>\n<p>In St Mark\u2019s Gospel Jesus asks,\u00a0<em>\u201cIs it lawful to do good on the Sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 The Pharisees and Herodians are watching him, sure that he has blown it this time.\u00a0 After all, it was hardly essential that the man had to be cured, there and then, on the Sabbath.\u00a0 His condition was not life-threatening.\u00a0 A cure could have waited until the next day.\u00a0 But Jesus makes no secret about what he is doing.\u00a0 In fact, he brings the man with the withered hand out into the middle\u2026.right into centre stage.\u00a0 The healing is not done in secret.\u00a0 Jesus, in front of all, tells the man to hold out his hand in clear view of everyone.\u00a0 And then He asks His question.\u00a0 Of course, they are flummoxed. His question is rhetorical.\u00a0 The Pharisees understand Jesus\u2019 question, and are very sure that they are not going to answer it for fear of the consequences.\u00a0 That is, fear of the crowd or fear that their lofty position be taken from them or fear that their answer will call for a change in their lives.\u00a0 Instead, they seek to bring about a change in the life of Jesus.\u00a0 They seek,\u00a0<em>\u201cto put him to death.\u201d <\/em>Jesus knew this, of course.\u00a0 Even at this early stage in his ministry, Jesus knew that the Cross was his vocation.\u00a0 Is it ours, too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-week Reflection 27th January 2021 Just before Christmas, I finished a course of catechetics with some of the sixth year pupils.\u00a0 We were studying. \u201cQuestions Jesus Asks\u201d and the conclusion was that<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-28\/\">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-26933","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\/26933","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=26933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26935,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933\/revisions\/26935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}