{"id":921,"date":"2019-10-15T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:13:10","slug":"reflection-20-october-2019-c-twenty-ninth-sunday-of-year-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Reflection 20 October 2019 (C) Twenty-Ninth SUNDAY of Year (c)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Reflection &amp; Dialogue<\/em><\/strong><em>: <strong>P<\/strong>rayer\nwithout ceasing. Reading the Scriptures<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s readings provide two clear topics for our\nreflection, topics mutually related. These are Jesus\u2019 call for prayer without\nceasing and Paul\u2019s emphasis on the Bible as a guide for Christian life, an\napproach to the Sunday Scripture readings which this internet site attempts to\nfollow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With\nregard to prayer, it must be regarded as necessary, since belief in Christ\ncannot be understood without a personal relationship with God in prayer.\nChristianity is a mystery, a mystery that demands this personal relationship.\nWithout this there is no living faith. Of course there are many\ndifferent forms of prayer, both public and private, but any of the forms need\nto have this personal relationship with God, and in the Christian tradition\nunder the guidance of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With regard to the reading and the\nstudy of the Bible there is no better place to begin to examine their importance\nthan today\u2019s reading from the Second Letter to Timothy. This reading can serve\nas a timely reminder of the importance attached by the Vatican II Council to\nthe reading of Scripture in the new revised liturgy, especially in the readings\nat the Sunday Mass. The Council goes beyond this and in its Constitution on\nDivine Revelation (<em>Dei Verbum<\/em>) there\nis an entire chapter on the place of scripture in the life of the Church, and\nin the various aspects of Christian living. In this chapter special mention is\nmade of its importance for the all clerics \u2013 priests, deacons, catechists, and\nall with direct contact with the ministry of the Word, and a call on them to\nimmerse themselves in the Scriptures by constant sacred reading (<em>lectio sacra<\/em>) and diligent study. In\nanother Council document, in the Decree on the Ministry and the Life of\nPriests, the matter is attended to in greater detail, with a special section on\nthe priests as ministers of God\u2019s word, with an expressed desire that they\nendeavour to treat of contemporary problems in the light of Christ\u2019s teaching \u2013\nsomething this Internet site has been attempting to do over the years, from\n2011 onwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection &amp; Dialogue: Prayer without ceasing. Reading the Scriptures Today\u2019s readings provide two clear topics for our reflection, topics mutually related. These are Jesus\u2019 call for prayer without ceasing and &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-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}