{"id":1379,"date":"2020-12-30T10:26:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T10:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2020-12-30T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T10:26:52","slug":"reflection-january-3rd-2021-b-second-sunday-after-the-nativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"Reflection January 3rd 2021 (B) Second Sunday after the Nativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>R<strong>eflection The Bible in Dialogue with Questions of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dialogue: <\/strong>God\u2019s Dream\/Vision for the human race<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we understand the evocative power of words concerning a dream. The four simple words \u201cI have a dream\u201d have changed the course of a nation\u2019s social history. We remember Patrick Pearse\u2019s words on the dream that he dreamed in his heart, and his desire that this should come true, with a life in the world of space and time, among the bulks of actual things. Today\u2019s readings invite us to reflect on the dream within God\u2019s heart, and revealed on various occasions, and in an ongoing way in Christ and in the Church. Divine wisdom in a variety ways had addressed humans directly, calling on them to follows the voice of Lady Wisdom and avoid the deceitful calls of Lady Folly. This divine vision has come through Jesus Christ, creator of the universe. In him have come grace and truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not just any dream. It is a divine dream, and as such a sacramental dream, with the divine power for true believers to have it receive life in the world of time and space, among the bulks of actual things. That is what today\u2019s reading from Ephesians calls on believers to do. But being a sacramental dream, it calls for deep reflection and prayer, for souls filled with a spirit of wisdom and perception of this great mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our world today has need of a dream, of a new vision. Believers would do well to reflect on the Christian vision, as revealed in Christ, as put before us in today\u2019s readings. How give it life in the actual world is a matter for reflection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection The Bible in Dialogue with Questions of the Day Dialogue: God\u2019s Dream\/Vision for the human race Today we understand the evocative power of words concerning a dream. The four &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","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=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}