{"id":917,"date":"2019-10-10T11:56:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2019-10-10T11:56:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T11:56:04","slug":"reflection-13-october-2019-c-twenty-eighth-sunday-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Reflection: 13 October 2019 (C) TWENTY-Eighth Sunday of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Reflection &amp; Dialogue<\/em><\/strong><em>: God\u2019s word can\nnot be fettered; it lasts forever. Thankfulness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing to the Romans Paul says:\n\u201cWhatever was written (in the Scriptures) in former days was written for our\ninstruction, so that by the steadfastness and by the encouragement of the\nscriptures we might have hope\u201d (Romans 15:4). These words encourage us to\nreflect weekly on the Sunday readings. We can recall a few of these today. This\nhas already been partly done above when explaining the readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.<em> The word of God lasts forever<\/em>. We have an example of this in the\nfirst reading. The activity of Elisha can be dated to about 850 BC. It provides\nan example of a prophet of Israel\nshowing kindness and healing to a foreigner, in act to a commanded to the army\nof the enemy of his people. It was an indication of a message to the Gentiles\nyet to come. Its message was not lost. Jesus recalled it to his fellow citizens\nof Nazareth, indicating the spread of the Gospel\nbeyond Israel\n(Luke 5:27). The word of the Lord can not be fettered. It has a force all its\nown. This thought should bring steadfastness in the faith and encouragement in\nour own day. God\u2019s word, God\u2019s dealing with humanity, has a lone history before\nour day, and will have its future.\n\n\n\n2. <em>Thankfulness<\/em>.\nThe explanation of the Gospel reading has already attended to this.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection &amp; Dialogue: God\u2019s word can not be fettered; it lasts forever. Thankfulness. Writing to the Romans Paul says: \u201cWhatever was written (in the Scriptures) in former days was written &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-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}