{"id":799,"date":"2019-07-01T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2019-07-01T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:03:17","slug":"reflection-7-july-2019-c-fourteenth-sunday-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Reflection 7 July  2019  (C) Fourteenth Sunday of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>B. Reflection &amp;<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> Dialogue<\/em><\/strong><em>: Need\nof true vision to sustain Christian life<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A vision of a nation\u2019s or\nindividual\u2019s past or future is a potent aid toward inspiration towards action.\nEmpires of remote and less remote past have created past history for\nthemselves, sometimes enshrining it in great literature, visions, even if\nimaginary, which inspired and justified imperial conquests. We may pass from\ncivil and profane history to the Bible and the history of salvation, where the\nsustaining vision for the present and the future is belief in the living God.\nFrom today\u2019s first reading we can see how the divine vision of a better, even\nglorious, future sustained Israel\nof old. It was God\u2019s vision for them, and what was foreseen, or foretold, was\nfar removed from their then present reality. Jesus preached that the kingdom of God was very near; at times Gospel texts\nsay that he said it was present. It was future, very near and present all at\nonce \u2013 present in the healing activity of Jesus and of the Apostles and others\nhe had commissioned to preach the good new of the kingdom. Paul, too, preached\nthe kingdom of God, the conquest of human weakness, but\nwas aware that this work of salvation could not be a reality without union with\nthe mystery of Christ\u2019s death and resurrection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Today\nwe need to reawaken our vision of the kingdom of God,\npresent and coming in the Church. Our vision of the Church must be that of the\nBible, of Paul and the epistles to the Colossians and the Ephesians. The Church\nas a sacrament is what believers are called to be, and can become through union\nwith the death and resurrection of Christ, as Paul insists on in today\u2019s second\nreading. Today there are so many voices that would have us look on the Church in\nher weaknesses, in the scandals of some of her members. We should resist the\ntemptation to so consider the Church. She is the universal sacrament of\nsalvation. Through her God and Christ should be seen as addresses their saving\nmessage to the world of our day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B. Reflection &amp; Dialogue: Need of true vision to sustain Christian life A vision of a nation\u2019s or individual\u2019s past or future is a potent aid toward inspiration towards action. &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-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}