{"id":939,"date":"2015-12-07T09:44:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T07:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=939"},"modified":"2021-12-06T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:43:15","slug":"2nd-week-of-advent-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2015\/12\/07\/2nd-week-of-advent-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Week of Advent, Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Gospel Our Lord reminds us what a great grace it is for us to receive forgiveness through the mediation of others. When the scribes and Pharisees in today&#8217;s Gospel are shocked that Our Lord would presume to forgive sins, Our Lord doesn&#8217;t keep silent as if to maintain the secret that he is God; rather, he uses the healing as a sign that the Son of Man has authority &#8220;on earth&#8221; to forgive sins. When we leave the confessional we have the relief of knowing that if we&#8217;ve made a good confession we&#8217;re forgiven: it&#8217;s the first day of the rest of our spiritual life. The challenges don&#8217;t go away, but we know we can make a fresh start.<\/p>\n<p>Our Lord doesn&#8217;t just want to dispense his mercy in eternity; God has opened the &#8220;roof&#8221; of history and arranged for those paralyzed by sin to receive the help they need to encounter his Son and be forgiven. During Advent we remember that Our Lord doesn&#8217;t come to condemn us, but to forgive us. We rejoice because we are forgiven and loved by God.<\/p>\n<p>A special time of mercy has begun with Advent; let&#8217;s rejoice that our forgiveness it at hand, and help others draw closer to the fount of mercy as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Readings:\u00a0Isaiah 35:1\u201310;\u00a0Psalm 85:9\u201314;\u00a0Luke 5:17\u201326.<\/em> See also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/07\/02\/13th-week-in-ordinary-time-thursday\/\">13th Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Icon-Liturgy-Purple-e1480745112394.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1957\" src=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Icon-Liturgy-Purple-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"icon-liturgy-purple\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Gospel Our Lord reminds us what a great grace it is for us to receive forgiveness through the mediation of others. When the scribes and Pharisees in today&#8217;s Gospel are shocked that Our Lord would presume to forgive sins, Our Lord doesn&#8217;t keep silent as if to maintain the secret that he is &#8230; <a title=\"2nd Week of Advent, Monday\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2015\/12\/07\/2nd-week-of-advent-monday\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2nd Week of Advent, Monday\">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":true,"_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":[119,14,29],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-monday","tag-second-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-f9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}