{"id":27507,"date":"2021-06-02T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=27507"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:01:00","slug":"wednesday-reflection-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-43\/","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><strong>2<sup>nd<\/sup> June 2021<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I retired one of my friends, to console me, said, \u201cAt least you will never have the task of preaching on Trinity Sunday.\u201d\u00a0 I thought of that on Sunday when I celebrated Mass and spoke of the Doctrine at Turnbull Hall, the Eucharistic heart of Glasgow University. As Churchill did not say,\u00a0 \u201cSome consolation!\u00a0 Some task!\u00a0 When you were a child and your mother told you not to touch an electrical socket, her words were enough for you.\u00a0 You didn\u2019t need to understand about the flow of electricity.\u00a0 You didn\u2019t need to touch and get a shock to prove that what she said was true.\u00a0 St Athanasius tells us that the faith of the Church, that which we have to believe as Catholics, is revealed by the Lord, proclaimed by the Apostles and guarded by the Fathers of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Really, <strong><em>that<\/em><\/strong> should be enough for us.\u00a0 Not to accept that is not to be a Catholic. We can know something about the Trinity. Something about the\u00a0 economy of salvation.\u00a0 That is, works performed by the Trinity outside itself.\u00a0 Extrinsic to its very being.\u00a0 That part of divine revelation that deals with God\u2019s creation and management of the world. \u00a0Not just creation\u2026but also redemption.\u00a0 Not just the universe but also salvation.\u00a0 There is another aspect of the Trinity that we can come to appreciate and understand.\u00a0 That \u00a0is God\u2019s essential Being throughout eternity.\u00a0 As He was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.\u00a0 The exterior work of the Trinity gives us an insight, a taste if you like, of the inner life of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.\u00a0 That which essential; that which permanently imbues and pervades Father, Son and Holy Ghost.\u00a0 In other words, what is of the essence or eternal being of the Trinity.<\/p>\n<p>Artists and poets have captured the exterior work by understanding the beauty of creation. Scientists and philosophers have increased our understanding about the marvels of creation.\u00a0 But no one has succeeded in knowing where or from whom they came from.\u00a0 For believers; for Catholics; for us\u2026\u2026..the work and the \u201chow\u201d of creation, leads all the way back to God Himself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-week Reflection \u00a02nd June 2021\u00a0 When I retired one of my friends, to console me, said, \u201cAt least you will never have the task of preaching on Trinity Sunday.\u201d\u00a0 I thought of<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-43\/\">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-27507","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\/27507","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=27507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27507\/revisions\/27508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}