{"id":27188,"date":"2021-02-24T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=27188"},"modified":"2021-02-23T11:18:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T10:18:01","slug":"wednesday-reflection-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-32\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mid-week Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">24<sup>th<\/sup> February 2021<\/p>\n<p>I almost never watch comedians on television.\u00a0 I cannot stand their seeming inability to be funny without using vulgar swear words.\u00a0 The same is often true about out-take programmes.\u00a0 What is funny about a highly-paid actor who is too lazy to learn lines properly and resorts to swearing?\u00a0 Even worse is when they curse using the Holy Name of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>In the days of the Old Testament, people held the name of God with such reverence that they would not call Him by His Name but referred to Him. \u00a0In forbidding the vain use of God\u2019s name, the third commandment does not merely ban irreverent, worthless, and empty speech and actions about the Lord, His titles, and His character. Like the other commandments, it also implicitly calls us to do the opposite of what it forbids. Even God the Father honours Jesus, not by using His Name but calling Him, \u201cMy Beloved Son.\u201d\u00a0 In Apostolic Times people held Jesus with such awe, respect and reverence that, for example, as we heard on Sunday, Saint Peter calls Him \u201cRabbi\u201d\u00a0 Peter has such love and veneration for the Lord that he wants to build a tent for Him.\u00a0 Not in the sense of camping and relaxing in the great outdoors but rather wanting Him to put down roots, stake a claim, and not move on.\u00a0 The problem for Peter was that Jesus had no plans to rest.\u00a0 So Peter follows Jesus back down the mountain, knowing that he had to stay with Jesus if he ever wanted to see such brilliance, beauty, and glory again.<\/p>\n<p>There is a great carelessness among people of our day when the name of the Lord is used so recklessly.\u00a0 It saddens the heart to hear that Glorious Name used as a curse rather than as a prayer.\u00a0 The days of reverence for the Holy Name may seem to have gone, but they could and should come back.\u00a0 And they will\u2026..particularly if the practice begins\u2026..\u00a0\u00a0 with us!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-week Reflection 24th February 2021 I almost never watch comedians on television.\u00a0 I cannot stand their seeming inability to be funny without using vulgar swear words.\u00a0 The same is often true about<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-32\/\">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-27188","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\/27188","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=27188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27189,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27188\/revisions\/27189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}