{"id":27962,"date":"2021-09-15T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=27962"},"modified":"2021-09-12T16:05:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T15:05:03","slug":"wednesday-reflection-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-51\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Midweek Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n

15th<\/sup> September 2021<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus connects Messiah-ship with suffering and death. In his Gospel, Mark tells of the first time that Jesus speaks to the disciples about suffering and death.\u00a0 He does so twice more later on. But that first time comes as a surprise to Peter and the others. They are rather thinking in terms of power and conquest.\u00a0 At that point, the earthly trumping the spiritual.\u00a0 So Peter protests really quite forcibly.\u00a0 He puts into words the very temptations which assail the Lord.\u00a0 At that point did Peter think that he knew better than God what a soul should do?\u00a0 The tempter\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n

In our days, sadly, the media,bad politicians and celebrities seems to have a strong influence over young people. But they do not decide the moral law.\u00a0 God does.\u00a0 In the Gospel, it\u2019s not so much that Jesus calls Peter, \u201cSatan\u201d as that He sees Satan present in the situation.\u00a0 Jesus is actually addressing Satan with the same words he had used previously when Satan tempted Him in the wilderness. Peter will become the Rock.\u00a0 Satan will always be the barrier\u2026. especially when he seems to be a friend. Not so long ago, I read a story called \u201cGareth and Lynette\u201d by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It tells the tale of Bellicent whose two sons, Gawain and Modred are Knights of the Round Table at the Court of King Arthur.\u00a0 Her youngest son, Gareth wants to follow their lead. His mother, out of love of course, wants to protect him from a dangerous and chivalrous life and promises him a comfortable life going with the hunt and dining at a rich table.\u00a0 He was her baby boy after all!\u00a0 But Gareth says, \u201cO mother, how can you keep me tethered to you – Shame. Man am I grown, a man\u2019s work must I do.\u00a0 Follow the deer?\u00a0 Follow the Christ, the King, live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King – Else, wherefore born?\u201d<\/p>\n

Just in case you are wondering\u2026..the Lynette of the story is his beloved whom after rejection and various acts of gallantry, he weds.\u00a0 Saint Peter had to learn to follow the King when the Lord called him.\u00a0 The tempter\u2019s voice had no place; no part to play.\u00a0 As we pray this week, and hopefully on other days too, for vocations to the priesthood, we believe that from our young men, the imperious voice of Jesus, and not the voice of the world, will be heard one more.<\/p>\n

Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Midweek Reflection 15th September 2021\u00a0 Jesus connects Messiah-ship with suffering and death. In his Gospel, Mark tells of the first time that Jesus speaks to the disciples about suffering and death.\u00a0 He<\/p>\n

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