{"id":1970,"date":"2022-12-26T14:01:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T14:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:59:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:59:02","slug":"reflection-1-january-2022-a-solemnity-of-mary-the-holy-mother-of-god-world-day-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"Reflection 1 January 2022 (A) . Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God. World Day for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i><span style=\"color: black;\">Reflection &amp; Dialogue: <\/span><\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"color: black;\">The greatness of Mary living with the mystery that was her Son<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">During the Christmas season attention has been centred on Jesus, on his birth and the joy of the occasion proclaimed by the angels. On this solemnity, the octave of Christmas, the Church devotes special attention to Mary, Jesus\u2019 Mother, the Holy Mother of God. Mary herself proclaimed her humility. She magnified the Lord for he had looked with favour on the lowliness of his handmaid. Her cousin Elizabeth declared her blessed among women, blessed because she believed. The woman in the crowd declared blessed the womb that bore Jesus. She was blessed at the Annunciation and at the birth of the redeemer of the human race, who was born of a woman. She treasured in her heart what was told her about her Son, and the words spoken to her by her Son which she did not understand. She lived, rejoiced, suffered and rejoiced with the mystery that was her Son. She is the model of the true believer, a model for all believers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;\"><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black;\">(<\/span><\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black;\">For reflections on the Sunday and Feast Day readings <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black;\">see Martin McNamara, <i>Sunday Readings with Matthew: Interpretations and Reflections<\/i>, Dublin, Veritas, 2016)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection &amp; Dialogue: The greatness of Mary living with the mystery that was her Son During the Christmas season attention has been centred on Jesus, on his birth and the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","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=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}