{"id":865,"date":"2019-08-19T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2019-08-19T11:15:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:15:31","slug":"reflection-25-august-2019-c-twenty-first-sunday-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"Reflection 25 AUGUST 2019 (C) Twenty-first Sunday of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&nbsp;<strong>Reflection &amp; Dialogue<\/strong>:\nFor God\u2019s kingdom tradition is not enough; response to the call of Jesus is\nrequired.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today\u2019s gospel reading, as in many other places in the\ngospels, Jesus gives a clear message to his contemporaries and his own people.\nThe promises made to the patriarchs were a great honour, and many pious Jews\nmight believe that by reason of these promises Israel was safe, that God was bound\nby his promises irrespective of any response made to God\u2019s call through Jesus.\nJesus\u2019 clear warning was that this was not so, that they could lose their\nstatus as the chosen people, a warning that was given effect by his death and\nresurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An&nbsp; equally clear lesson to be drawn by us from\nthis is that one\u2019s national tradition is not sufficient in matters relating to\nbelief in God and in Christ. We have seen how many of the nations of the old\nworld have lost the faith. The Church moves ahead to new nations and countries.\nIt is too facile an answer to say that this is a matter of \u201ccoming of age\u201d and\nof leaving superstition and fairy tales behind. There is a deeper dimension to\nfaith, which is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things\nunseen. Faith needs to be nourished \u2013 in the soul, in the heart, in the mind through\nknowledge. It is not sufficient to think that fidelity to the faith in the\npast, of persecutions suffered for its sake, will guarantee it in the present.\nA living faith is required, faith in the living God, listening to the voice of\nJesus speaking now as he did to his own people while on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We have\nrich material for reflection here; material also for dialogue among ourselves\non the response to be made to the challenges facing our belief in God, in Christ\nand in the Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Reflection &amp; Dialogue: For God\u2019s kingdom tradition is not enough; response to the call of Jesus is required. In today\u2019s gospel reading, as in many other places in the gospels, &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-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}