{"id":1013,"date":"2020-02-04T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2020-02-04T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:17:10","slug":"reflection-9-february-2020-a-a-fifth-sunday-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"Reflection 9 February 2020 (A) (A) Fifth Sunday of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The\nBible in Dialogue with Questions of the Day. <\/strong><strong><em>Reflection and Dialogue: <\/em><\/strong><em>Christians the light of the world; the\nCentrality of the Cross.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Reflection. <\/em>The reflection given\nabove on the Gospel reading, on Christians as the light of the world, gives\nample food for thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dialogue with contemporary society: Human wisdom and Divine Wisdom.<\/em>\nEver since the eighteenth-century philosophical Movement of the Enlightenment\nthere has been an understanding of the \u201clight\u201d proper to humanity quite\ndifferent from that of the Gospel and Jesus\u2019 words read today. Although there has\nbeen, and is, quite a difference of opinions among members of the Movement, a\ncommonly accepted principle among them is that the human mind, and the senses\nare sufficient guide in human affairs, without any interference from heaven or\nany otherworldly voice. No such outside interference would be acceptable to\nthem. This situation is very much part of the world in which we live. On the other\nhand, we have the Christian position as formulated by Paul that human wisdom is\ndeficient in matters relating to knowledge of God. Paul\u2019s words on knowledge of\nthe mystery of God and the centrality of divine wisdom as revealed in the Cross\nare still valid and fundamental principles of our faith. While it is true that the\nmodern view of human life has accepted quite an amount from the Beatitudes and\nthe Sermon on the Mount, there are a number of elements of the Enlightenment\nand what it stands for which cannot be accepted by&nbsp;Christians. And Christians\nwill continue to believe that the \u201cpower\u201d which in the first instance gave\nfaith in Christ and the Cross is still at work. &nbsp;Faith comes from this power, and is kept alive\nand active in our own day by prayer and devotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>(<\/em><\/strong><em>For reflections on the Sunday and Feast\nDay&nbsp; readings <\/em>see Martin McNamara, <em>Sunday Readings with Matthew:\nInterpretations and Reflections<\/em>, Dublin,\nVeritas, 2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible in Dialogue with Questions of the Day. Reflection and Dialogue: Christians the light of the world; the Centrality of the Cross. Reflection. The reflection given above on the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}