{"id":28011,"date":"2021-09-22T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=28011"},"modified":"2021-09-21T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T21:14:09","slug":"wednesday-reflection-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-52\/","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY REFLECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

22nd<\/sup> September 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Yesterday we celebrated the Feast of the Apostle and Evangelist, St Matthew.\u00a0 Being a tax collector for the Roman invaders, he was not much loved by the people of Capernaum where he lived. His call to follow Jesus is recounted in Mark and Luke as well as in his own Gospel. Mark and Luke call him Levi and Mark adds that he was the son of Alpheus. He was almost certainly well-to-do.\u00a0 How many others in Capernaum could afford to hold a champagne dinner for Jesus and his companions!?\u00a0 Was Matthew\u2019s desire to encounter Jesus a sudden thing?\u00a0 Possibly not.\u00a0 Jesus was already well-known and\u00a0 was living in Capernaum at the time of Matthew\u2019s calling. He would have been aware of his presence and perhaps the idea of vocation had already begun in his inner-most thoughts.<\/p>\n

Although Matthew\u2019s is counted as the first Gospel, he was not the first to be called.\u00a0 His own account of his calling is fairly brief.\u00a0 Jesus is passing the customs house, calls him and he follows.\u00a0 The scene is familiar to us from Caravaggio\u2019s painting which probably many of us have seen in the French church of St Louis in Rome.\u00a0 But there is another painting which pre-dates Carravaggio by almost a hundred years and it is by Vittore Carpaccio.\u00a0 He captures him standing by the temple, in the very act of his work, and Jesus comes along with his retinue and takes him by the hand.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know all that much about Matthew after that.\u00a0 It is thought that he may have preached\u00a0 in Judea and then moved to Ethiopia, Partha and Persia.\u00a0\u00a0 He is venerated as a martyr but where and when that took place, we do not know.\u00a0 His chief claim to fame, therefore, is his Gospel which was almost certainly written in Aramaic for the Jewish people.\u00a0\u00a0 His Gospel is the only one to recount the visit of the Magi to Bethlehem, the slaughter of the innocents by King Herod<\/strong> and the flight into Egypt.\u00a0 So, all in all, his was a rather impressive CV!<\/p>\n

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

Midweek Reflection 22nd September 2021 \u00a0Yesterday we celebrated the Feast of the Apostle and Evangelist, St Matthew.\u00a0 Being a tax collector for the Roman invaders, he was not much loved by the<\/p>\n

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