{"id":2108,"date":"2017-01-26T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T08:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2021-01-28T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:47:13","slug":"3rd-week-in-ordinary-time-thursday-year-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2017\/01\/26\/3rd-week-in-ordinary-time-thursday-year-i\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday, Year I"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s Gospel Our Lord teaches us that we’re meant to shine. He begins by describing the absurdity of covering up a lamp, which goes contrary to its purpose. The higher a source of light, and the better it is positioned, the more it shines and fulfills its purpose. For a Christians to shine like we must not only try for the moral high ground, but also strive for holiness, a holiness that spurs us to give witness to the source of our light: Christ.<\/p>\n

A light also draws attention, so if someone tries to cover a light it can be because they are trying\u00a0not to avoid attention. Our Lord speaks about how we measure out our Christian living: if we give it all, he’ll constantly renew us, but if we shutter up the light he’s given us, only letting it peek out of a few cracks, eventually the light will be gone altogether. He is our light and his light never wanes.<\/p>\n

Our faith, especially our awareness of how much Our Lord loves us, can be a blazing light in our lives and in the lives of others. Let’s share it as the greatest treasure we own.<\/p>\n

Readings:\u00a0Hebrews 10:19\u201325; Psalm 24:1\u20136; Mark 4:21\u201325.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In today’s Gospel Our Lord teaches us that we’re meant to shine. He begins by describing the absurdity of covering up a lamp, which goes contrary to its purpose. The higher a source of light, and the better it is positioned, the more it shines and fulfills its purpose. For a Christians to shine like … 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":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-y0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}