{"id":27898,"date":"2021-08-18T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=27898"},"modified":"2021-08-17T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T21:11:40","slug":"wednesday-reflection-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-47\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Midweek Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>18<sup>th<\/sup> August 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunday was the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.\u00a0 I know you are all aware of that: but maybe not aware that in the Portico of St Peter\u2019s Basilica are carved the names of the bishops who were present in Rome for the proclamation of the doctrine.\u00a0 Among them are the names of Archbishop Campbell of Glasgow, Bishop Edward Douglas of Motherwell and Bishop James Black of Paisley.\u00a0 How honoured they must have felt returning to Rome and seeing their names inscribed for all times on the pillars of the world\u2019s greatest basilica!\u00a0 Two other feasts take place this week. On Friday, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and on Saturday, Pope Saint Pius X.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard\u2019s writings reveal a solid grasp of biblical studies, spiritual theology and philosophy.\u00a0 Pius, who had been the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, encouraged pastoral liturgy and sacramental practice, especially of frequent communion, to which he admitted young children.\u00a0 Both of them, in different ways and in different times taught that physical feeding and physical healing are not enough. Those gifts of Jesus satisfied their bodies, but not their minds and souls.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus shows them\u2026.and us\u2026.that they\u2026.and we\u2026. are to lead a worthy life, marked by humility, gentleness, tolerance and patience. Unity and peace. Constancy. Recognition of diversity of gifts for building up the body of Christ.\u00a0 Benedict and Pius would have been aware of the Rule of St Benedict who tells us to bear \u201cwith the greatest patience one another\u2019s weaknesses of body or character.\u201d He teaches, \u201cYou are not to act in anger or nurse a grudge\u2026Do not repay one bad turn with another\u2026If you have a dispute with someone, make peace with them before the sun goes down.\u201d Then he adds, \u201cEach of us has a special gift from God, one this and another that\u201d. the lesson surely is clear.\u00a0 Those who contribute their gifts to the whole, will \u201cbring us all together to everlasting life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midweek Reflection 18th August 2021 Sunday was the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.\u00a0 I know you are all aware of that: but maybe not aware that in the Portico of St<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-47\/\">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-27898","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\/27898","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=27898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27899,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27898\/revisions\/27899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}