{"id":27230,"date":"2021-03-03T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=27230"},"modified":"2021-03-01T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:24:09","slug":"wednesday-reflection-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-33\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mid-week Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">3<sup>rd<\/sup> March 2021<\/p>\n<p>Here we are now in the second week of Lent.\u00a0 The Scriptures at Mass on Monday featured the Book of Daniel.\u00a0 We will hear again from him next Tuesday, but, unlike the Gospels,\u00a0 not in an organised arrangement. I found the passage, which came from chapter nine, extremely moving.\u00a0 In the sentence before the passage we heard, Daniel announce that he is seeking the Lord by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.\u00a0 It\u2019s a pity the editors missed that verse out as it makes great reading for Lent.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Daniel goes on to describe God as great and awesome; infinite in the qualities of beauty, simplicity and mercy.\u00a0 Then comes the crunch.\u00a0 As if examining our consciences, he admits that we have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled and turned against the Commandments and ordinances.\u00a0 The lack of listening to the messengers of God causes confusion, treachery, sinfulness, rebellion and disobedience.<\/p>\n<p>Preparation for Confession helps us to see our own particular transgressions and the need to turn our lives around from such calamity.\u00a0 We don\u2019t deserve love. We don\u2019t merit forgiveness.\u00a0 We aren\u2019t worthy of\u00a0 these gifts. Yet, Daniel insists that God\u2019s love is infinite, even when we seem to have rejected it. \u00a0Probably every day we pray, \u00a0<em>\u201d\u2026.forgive us our trespasses <\/em><em><strong>as<\/strong><\/em><em> we forgive those who trespass against us.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Perhaps we should replace that \u201cas\u201d with \u201ceven more than.\u201d Or, even better, perhaps we should learn to show mercy to the extent that we wish to receive mercy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-week Reflection 3rd March 2021 Here we are now in the second week of Lent.\u00a0 The Scriptures at Mass on Monday featured the Book of Daniel.\u00a0 We will hear again from him<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-33\/\">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-27230","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\/27230","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=27230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27231,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27230\/revisions\/27231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}