{"id":910,"date":"2019-10-01T15:29:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=910"},"modified":"2019-10-01T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:29:43","slug":"reflection-6-october-2-2019-c-twenty-seventh-sunday-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Reflection 6 October 2 2019 (C) twenty-Seventh SUNDAY of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Reflection &amp; Dialogue:\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s readings invite us to enter into\ndialogue with contemporary society, and some of its religious preoccupations.\nThis we can do under three headings, one for each of today\u2019s three readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.\n<em>Faithfulness, steadfastness, with perceived\ndelays by God and the Church. <\/em>We live in an era of rapid change in society,\none in which prompt, if not immediate, answers are expected, sometimes in matters\nof faith and morals. From time immemorial God\u2019s ways and actions have been\nquestioned by believers and non-believers. The Bible tells us that Job had put\ntogether his book of evidence concerning some of God\u2019s actions. God did reply\nto Job but did not give an answer to his questions. Neither did he to the\nprophet Habakkuk. In our day, as in those of Job and Habakkuk, believers will\nhave to live with their faith in God, whatever their questioning. Faith is a\ntheological virtue, a gift of God. The certainty of faith comes from God. No\namount of questions can shake this certainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2.<\/em> <em>The Deposit of Faith. <\/em>The\nconcept of the \u201cdeposit of faith\u201d can be traced back to the first century and\nthe Pastoral Epistles. It is with us still, and is thus formulated in the <em>Catechism of the Catholic Churc<\/em>h, under\nthe heading: \u201cThe heritage of faith entrusted to the whole of the Church. The\napostles entrusted the \u2018Sacred deposit\u2019 of the faith (the <em>depositum fidei<\/em>), contained in Sacred Scripture and Tradition, to\nthe whole of the Church\u201d<a> (par. 84); &#8220;Sacred\nTradition and Sacred Scripture make up a single sacred deposit of the Word of\nGod, in which, as in a mirror, the pilgrim Church contemplates God, the source\nof all her riches.\u201d (par. 97). What elements in the \u201cdeposit\u201d are immutable,\nand which historically conditioned are matters currently under discussion. Given\nthat this belongs to the mystery of faith, a faith approach and divine guidance\nare indicated.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. <em>The faith that works wonders. <\/em>This has been stressed by Jesus, and remains\nan inspiration and source of consolation, for Church leaders and all the\nfaithful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection &amp; Dialogue: Today\u2019s readings invite us to enter into dialogue with contemporary society, and some of its religious preoccupations. This we can do under three headings, one for each &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-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}