{"id":28303,"date":"2021-12-22T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=28303"},"modified":"2021-12-20T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T16:20:07","slug":"wednesday-reflection-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Midweek Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>22<sup>nd<\/sup> December 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One person, and one person only, told me that during the Year of Saint Joseph, he had visited a number of churches dedicated to Saint. Joseph. In our diocese, he had gone to the Parish of Saint Joseph in Clarkson and Greenock.\u00a0 In Glasgow Archdiocese, to Milngavie, Tollcross and Faifley.\u00a0 In Motherwell Diocese to Stepps and Blantyre.\u00a0 I wish I had thought of doing the same! I thought that the Year of Dedication was a good time particularly for men to reflect on their role in the family, in marriage and in fatherhood.\u00a0 Those called after Saint Joseph might well reflect on how Jesus looked upon him with the deepest of honour, respect, and love. He was the father who provided for him, the one who would hand on to him the best of their Jewish traditions.<\/p>\n<p>One American bishop said that Joseph would have taught Jesus\u00a0 how to pray, how to observe Shabbat,\u00a0 how to honour God in the psalms, and how to read the sacred scriptures. Jesus would have hung about the carpenter\u2019s shop picking up skills and witnessing to the value of hard work and dedication. How wonderful it must have been for Joseph to have the joy of the boy\u2019s company for hour after hour.\u00a0 What father does not cherish moments bonding with their sons? What did they talk about?\u00a0 Well, we don\u2019t actually know.\u00a0 The Scriptures record very few words of Mary and none at all of Joseph! The silence of their witness is profound. Perhaps that was more effective than if they had spoken often. Is there a lesson there for us?\u00a0 \u00a0Be silent before the crib.\u00a0 Be still. Be soundless.\u00a0 Be present only to the Holy Family.\u00a0 Be aware.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Monsignor Monaghan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midweek Reflection 22nd December 2021 One person, and one person only, told me that during the Year of Saint Joseph, he had visited a number of churches dedicated to Saint. Joseph. In<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wednesday-reflection-60\/\">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-28303","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\/28303","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=28303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28307,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28303\/revisions\/28307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}