{"id":897,"date":"2019-09-18T10:50:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:50:56","slug":"reflection-22-september-2019-c-twenty-fifth-sunday-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Reflection 22 September  2019 (C) Twenty-Fifth SUNDAY of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Reflection &amp; Dialogue<\/em><\/strong><em>: Prayer, faith, danger of addiction to wealth<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;Reflection. Prayer and faith.<\/em> Today\u2019s Sunday readings present an ideal opportunity of\ncombining reflection and dialogue with modern life. The situation reflected by\nthe Pastoral Epistles, of which 1 Timothy is one, is that in which the\nChristian movement had passed beyond individual churches, such as Corinth,\nThessalonica, Philippi, Rome to one in which its numbers have increased and\nthat it is now conscious of being communities belonging to a larger world\nChurch. They must reflect on how to act within a highly organized civil society\nwhile remaining faithful to the church\u2019s origin and mission. The first call is\nto prayer, a community activity but also one for all society; prayer in its\nvarious forms, petitions, intercession, and thanksgiving, with no anger or\nargument. With this, or rather as source of this, goes firm faith in Jesus, his\natoning death, and the mission of the Church to be witness of this to all\npeoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Gospel\nreading centres on the dangers of allowing money or wealth to be our masters.\nIt is easy to have this lead to dialogue with modern life. From recent history\nwe know only too well how the pursuit of wealth has destroyed eminent persons,\nand whole societies. It can lead to crass materialism and neglect or denial of\nthe spiritual. Our present Holy Father has called attention to this, and has\nexhorted priests and others to turn to a life of Gospel simplicity. Some\npolitical leaders, with no strong religious affiliations, are doing the same.\nThere are some eminent examples, of course, of the wealthy and millionaires who\ngive lavishly to voluntary causes, and to the poor. Jesus stresses the value of\nhaving mammon, money, wealth, lead to almsgiving, to aid for the poor. It is to\nbe hoped that the Gospel message of the danger of mammon becoming a\ntask-master, leading to bondage, will be noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection &amp; Dialogue: Prayer, faith, danger of addiction to wealth &nbsp;Reflection. Prayer and faith. Today\u2019s Sunday readings present an ideal opportunity of combining reflection and dialogue with modern life. The &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-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}