{"id":27402,"date":"2021-04-21T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=27402"},"modified":"2021-04-18T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T14:30:36","slug":"wednesday-reflection-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-38\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mid-week Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>21<sup>st<\/sup> April 2021<\/p>\n<p>When I was parish priest in St Cadoc\u2019s, Sean, for many years very carefully and prayerfully instructed those desiring to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church.\u00a0 Being a Third Order Franciscan he loved quoting St. Francis of Assisi who said,\u00a0\u201cPreach always, and use words if necessary.\u201d\u00a0 That is to say, you can preach the Gospel without opening your mouth!.\u00a0 I know of a few priests who by the gentleness and holiness of their lives, rather than by their skill at preaching, win souls to Christ.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need to say anything when we forgive someone who has wronged or hurt us.\u00a0Jesus, by his Death on the Cross taught us this example.\u00a0 Mother Teresa said very little as she picked up the poor and destitute people in the gutters of Calcutta. Jesus did not seek an apology.\u00a0 Mother did not seek praise.<\/p>\n<p>Can we ever imagine doing good without demanding an apology or seeking some human recognition?\u00a0 Our silence may even result in us being mocked or scorned. That\u2019s what happened to Jesus. When as children we were naughty or disobedient, my mother\u2019s silence was a more tortuous reprimand than any scolding words! A baby does not speak.\u00a0 The baby has no words to say.\u00a0 Yet the baby is the recipient of joy and love.\u00a0 As educators we need to speak.\u00a0 Words are our tools.\u00a0 But sometimes, tools are better left aside.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-week Reflection \u00a021st April 2021 When I was parish priest in St Cadoc\u2019s, Sean, for many years very carefully and prayerfully instructed those desiring to enter into full communion with the Catholic<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-38\/\">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-27402","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\/27402","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=27402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27403,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27402\/revisions\/27403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}