{"id":27527,"date":"2021-06-09T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=27527"},"modified":"2021-06-08T09:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T08:58:25","slug":"wednesday-reflection-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-44\/","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>9<sup>th<\/sup> June 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>There is that proverb that little children should be seen and not heard.\u00a0 It always strikes me as a nasty thing to say and horrific that an adult should think it a fitting thing to say.\u00a0 A few years ago I turned up for a meeting and in the car park, to my chagrin,\u00a0 was told that I had no right to be there but while I would be allowed to be present I would not be allowed to speak.\u00a0 I remember thinking that it was not only children who should be seen and not heard.\u00a0 I got in my car and drove back home!<\/p>\n<p>I love listening to the innocence of primary school children and to the wisdom, and sometimes staggering intelligence, of the secondary school students.\u00a0 In today\u2019s Gospel passage Jesus strictly directs His disciples to integrity in their lives.\u00a0 There must be integrity between, what they practice and what they preach.\u00a0 As educators, we should never say that other horrid proverb, \u201cDon\u2019t do as I do, do as I say.\u201d\u00a0 Our actions should speak as loud as our words.\u00a0 If we do, the reward is great.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus says, \u201c<em>whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>A good custom before going to sleep is to examine our conscience. Have we put into practice the integrity Jesus has asked of us?\u00a0 \u00a0Have we taught others by our\u00a0 words and by our actions?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-week Reflection \u00a09th June 2021 \u00a0There is that proverb that little children should be seen and not heard.\u00a0 It always strikes me as a nasty thing to say and horrific that an<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-44\/\">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-27527","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\/27527","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=27527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27529,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27527\/revisions\/27529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}