{"id":928,"date":"2019-10-26T07:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T07:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2019-10-26T07:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T07:56:19","slug":"reflection-27-october-2019-c-thirtieth-sunday-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Reflection: 27 October 2019 (C) Thirtieth Sunday of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Reflection &amp; Dialogue<\/em><\/strong><em>: Do no be haughty, but associate with the lowly<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus used very harsh words on hypocrisy and hypocrites, on\npeople who were accustomed to draw attention to themselves through their\nobservance of the three pious practices of Judaism, prayer, fasting and almsgiving.\nHe also criticized the Pharisees, and the scribes of the Pharisee tradition,\nfor their undue attention to the external cleanness of vessels and other\nobjects, while neglecting inner cleanness and higher values. These were all\nmatters concerning Jewish practices. In today\u2019s parable, although the two\nchosen to represent two groups were Jews, the traits of both the Pharisee and\nthe tax collector could stand for persons of any age, including our own. It\nbehoves the human person, in any age, to be lowly and humble in God\u2019s presence,\naware of his own human weakness and the weakness of human nature, as well as\nbeing aware of the All-Holiness of God, who understands and is concerned for\nall his creatures, the sinner included, in fact in particular the sinner. Today\u2019s\nparable directs our attention to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Writing to\nthe Romans Paul puts the essence of today\u2019s parable is a few words: \u201cRejoice\nwith those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one\nanother; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be\nwiser than you are\u201d (Romans 12:15-16). The same teaching is given repeatedly by\nPaul and other New Testament writers. It would take a treatise to present all\nthe evidence: love of the neighbour, attending to the other\u2019s welfare rather to\none\u2019s own. The idea is represented in the Irish proverb that people live with\nmutual support, under one another\u2019s shadow. In this sense, with Paul\u2019s statement,\nthe New Testament teaching is very socialistic. Greater knowledge of this New Testament\nteaching is worth recalling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection &amp; Dialogue: Do no be haughty, but associate with the lowly Jesus used very harsh words on hypocrisy and hypocrites, on people who were accustomed to draw attention to &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-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}