{"id":808,"date":"2019-07-11T07:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T07:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2019-07-11T07:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T07:15:37","slug":"14-july-2019-c-fifteenth-sunday-of-year-reflection-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"14 July 2019 (C) Fifteenth Sunday of Year Reflection &#038; Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Reflection &amp; Dialogue: Awareness of our\nChristian inheritance and pride in it<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s readings\ninvite us to reflect on our Christian inheritance and to take pride in it.\nMoses called on his people to do likewise, and to thank God for the great gift\nof divine revelation granted them.&nbsp; They\nwere also reminded of the great gift that faith bestowed on them, making them\naware of the divine presence, of a personal God near them, not some remote\nimpersonal power or being. They we also reminded that living their religion s\nthey were called to do would make them messengers of the one true and only God.\nThe second reading calls on us to reflect on the supremacy of Christ, sent by\nGod to reconcile all things on earth through him. Christ is head of the Church,\nhis body. In Christ all the fullness of God\u2019s saving power dwells, and though\nChrist in the Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Let us now turn to the general\nsituation in our own day, in much or the Western world and in our own country\nat any rate. There is a strong movement towards secularism and a growing\nhumanistic and atheistic view of things. God and revelation from God are seen\nas impediments to individual freedom and human development. There is a growing\ntendency to see to it that the Church or religion has no say in public life.\nThis holds good in particular for political leaders. But the general believing\npublic are not unaffected. There is lack of enthusiasm for matters relating to\nbelief in Christ or the Church, and a decrease in religious practice. Today\u2019s\nreading could act as a wake up call, inspiring us to pray for knowledge of the\nmystery of the supremacy of Christ, bearing\nfruit in good work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection &amp; Dialogue: Awareness of our Christian inheritance and pride in it Today\u2019s readings invite us to reflect on our Christian inheritance and to take pride in it. Moses called &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-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}