{"id":758,"date":"2019-05-21T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=758"},"modified":"2019-05-21T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:48:09","slug":"26-may-2019-c-sixth-sunday-of-easter-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"26 May  2019 (C) Sixth SUNDAY of Easter Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Reflection &amp; Dialogue<\/em><\/strong><em>: The Holy Spirit\nguides the Church to be faithful to Christ\u2019s teaching<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A theme running through the first\nreading and the Gospel reading today is the guiding presence of the Holy Spirit\nwith the Church. The Christian mission from its very beginnings to our own day\nhas been one of developments, development in the understanding of God\u2019s message\nto Israel\nthrough Moses and the Prophets and developments in the understanding of the\nrelation of the Son with the Father. These are developments that demanded, and\nstill demand, faith. Jesus in his own lifetime was sent to the lost sheep of\nthe house of Israel.\nAfter his resurrection the apostles were commanded by him to preach the Gospel\nto all peoples. Paul was chosen by God to be the apostle to the pagans, the\ngentiles, to preach salvation through faith in Jesus, without the prior\nrequirement of the Jewish law. Jesus had left no blueprint how this was to be\nworked out. It had to be done under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We see\nfrom the first reading how this occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The\nHoly Spirit, the Paraclete, links the church of each age with Jesus, reminding\nit of all Jesus has said. This does not apply just to development in doctrine,\nas for instance in the relation of Jesus to the Father, as God of God, begotten\nnot made, and such like. The Holy Spirit also reminds the Church of Jesus\u2019\nlove for all strata of humanity, the marginalized and all others, challenging\neach generation to renew itself after the model of Jesus, m devotion, in the\nbreaking of bread (the Eucharist, the Mass) and in prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection &amp; Dialogue: The Holy Spirit guides the Church to be faithful to Christ\u2019s teaching A theme running through the first reading and the Gospel reading today is the guiding &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-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}