{"id":952,"date":"2019-11-13T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=952"},"modified":"2019-11-13T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:06:00","slug":"reflection-17-november-2019-c-thirty-third-sunday-of-the-year-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Reflection 17 November 2019 (C)  Thirty-Third Sunday of  the Year (c)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Reflection &amp;\nDialogue<\/em><\/strong><em>: Looking towards the End; persevering to the end.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the liturgical year the\nChurch in its liturgy invites us to reflect on end events and realities: the\nend of history and the coming of the Son of Man, the end of one\u2019s personal\nlife, the end of the triumph of evil over good and the coming of new heavens\nand a new earth, in which justice will prevail.\nThere are references to all these in today\u2019s readings. There is, however,\nanother truth we are invited to reflect on in conjunction with these truths &#8212; that\nis the need for perseverance if our religion, our attachment to the person and\nwork of Christ, is to survive the problems and boredoms of human and Christian\nexistence. Luke\u2019s presentation of Christ\u2019s teaching makes this point: \u201cYour\nendurance (through trials and persecutions) will win your lives\u201d, just as he\ndoes at the end of the explanation of the parable of the sower and the seed\n(Luke 8:15). The perseverance in question is not\nsomething passive, of the \u201cgrin and bear it\u201d type, but is part the faith that\nlinks us with God and with Christ. It is part of the mystery of salvation. God\nis saviour of all humanity and given free will there is no easy answer to many\nquestions. God was with the human race from the beginning, from the big bang\nmany trillions of years ago, if we so wish to put it. The Epistle to the\nHebrews (chapter 20 and others) lays stress on the need for this perseverance.\nChapters of this Epistle have been read on Sunday 19 to 22 this year. See these\nreadings and the notes on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection &amp; Dialogue: Looking towards the End; persevering to the end. At the end of the liturgical year the Church in its liturgy invites us to reflect on end events &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-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}