{"id":1765,"date":"2016-10-07T10:37:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T08:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2020-10-09T02:39:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T06:39:19","slug":"27th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday-year-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2016\/10\/07\/27th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday-year-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"27th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday, Year II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even the Jews of Paul&#8217;s time recognized that people who\u00a0did not have a Jewish heritage were attracted to their religion, but they didn&#8217;t understand it exactly to mean that the blessings the Lord promised to Abraham were meant for more than the people of Israel. Some who &#8220;converted&#8221; to Judaism in Paul&#8217;s time would always be a second-class citizen because they were\u00a0not blood descendants of Abraham. Paul refers to the blessings promised to and through Abraham in today&#8217;s First Reading and explains that to become a descendant of Abraham in the salvific sense all you needed was faith, not lineage.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham was reckoned as righteous because of his faith, not because of his\u00a0lineage.\u00a0In the liturgy we refer Abraham as &#8220;our father in faith&#8221; for this very reason. Paul today is encouraging the Galatians to not treat themselves like second-class citizens. Through their faith in Christ they, and we, connect to that lineage of faith that brings salvation. The &#8220;law&#8221;\u00a0to which Paul refers is religious practice done without faith in Christ, as we considered <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2016\/10\/06\/27th-week-in-ordinary-time-thursday-year-ii\/\">yesterday<\/a>. Without the grace won by Christ the Jews were not able to persevere in their religious practices, and neither would we.<\/p>\n<p>Our faith will help us weather anything, of we let it. Let&#8217;s ask Our Lord to help us grow in faith and stay a part of Abraham&#8217;s lineage of faith.<\/p>\n<p><em>Readings:\u00a0Galatians 3:7\u201314;\u00a0Psalm 111:1b\u20136; Luke 11:15\u201326.<\/em> See also <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2016\/03\/03\/3rd-week-of-lent-thursday\/\">3rd Week of Lent, Thursday<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/10\/09\/27th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday\/\">27th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/01950\/hotel_1950179c.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the Jews of Paul&#8217;s time recognized that people who\u00a0did not have a Jewish heritage were attracted to their religion, but they didn&#8217;t understand it exactly to mean that the blessings the Lord promised to Abraham were meant for more than the people of Israel. Some who &#8220;converted&#8221; to Judaism in Paul&#8217;s time would always &#8230; <a title=\"27th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday, Year II\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2016\/10\/07\/27th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday-year-ii\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 27th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday, Year II\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,45,100,146],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-friday","tag-ordinary-time","tag-twenty-seventh-week","tag-year-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-st","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}