{"id":2571,"date":"2017-11-06T09:03:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T07:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2019-11-04T02:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T07:25:05","slug":"31st-week-in-ordinary-time-monday-year-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2017\/11\/06\/31st-week-in-ordinary-time-monday-year-i\/","title":{"rendered":"31st Week in Ordinary Time, Monday, Year I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s First Reading is a little confusing if it is not seen within the context of whom Paul has been speaking about: Israel. In the Acts of the Apostles we see Paul going to the Jews first to proclaim the Gospel, only to receive hostility. Paul then tells them they&#8217;ve rejected what Our Lord was offering them and would, therefore, share it with the Gentiles (see Acts 13:44\u201349). In today&#8217;s reading Paul describes the Jews&#8217; loss as the Gentiles&#8217; gain.<\/p>\n<p>If the Jews had not rejected the Word, &#8220;disobeyed,&#8221; the opportunity of mercy would never have been presented to the Gentiles, who did accept the Word, becoming reconciled with God as a result. The wonders the Gospel did among the Gentiles gave the Jews an opportunity to re-think their disobedience and receive God&#8217;s mercy through the Gospel as well.<\/p>\n<p>Many people who have returned to God tell the tale of how many twists and turns the path to mercy took in their lives. That&#8217;s not God&#8217;s fault, but ours. John the Baptist, quoting Isaiah, encouraged us to &#8220;Make straight the way of the Lord&#8221; (see John 1:23). Let&#8217;s embrace his mercy and his way with all our heart.<\/p>\n<p><em>Readings: Romans 11:29\u201336; Psalm 69:30\u201331, 33\u201334, 36; Luke 14:12\u201314.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reverandandys.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/detour-sign.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s First Reading is a little confusing if it is not seen within the context of whom Paul has been speaking about: Israel. In the Acts of the Apostles we see Paul going to the Jews first to proclaim the Gospel, only to receive hostility. Paul then tells them they&#8217;ve rejected what Our Lord was &#8230; <a title=\"31st Week in Ordinary Time, Monday, Year I\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2017\/11\/06\/31st-week-in-ordinary-time-monday-year-i\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 31st Week in Ordinary Time, Monday, Year I\">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":[14,45,113,46],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-monday","tag-ordinary-time","tag-thirty-first-week","tag-year-i"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-Ft","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","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=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}