{"id":2132,"date":"2017-02-01T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T08:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2021-02-03T08:27:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T13:27:32","slug":"4th-week-in-ordinary-time-tuesday-year-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2017\/02\/01\/4th-week-in-ordinary-time-tuesday-year-i-2\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday, Year I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2017\/01\/30\/4th-week-in-ordinary-time-monday-year-i\/\">yesterday<\/a>&#8216;s First Reading the Letter to the Hebrews describes Christian life as a race to be run, and today the Letter continues by describing the Lord as a loving and demanding parent who tries to bring the best out of us, even when we don&#8217;t appreciate it until later on.\u00a0A coach demands the best from you, even when you don&#8217;t feel up to it or able to achieve. A coach who is also a parent knows you inside and out, knows the moment to insist, the moment to praise, the moment to correct.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we think the Lord engineers events to make us miserable; it&#8217;s as if he&#8217;s out to ruin us. The Lord, like a parent, knows that sometimes we have to face trials and difficulties or we&#8217;ll never mature: he may not cause a trial or a difficulty, but sometimes he permits it for a greater good.<\/p>\n<p>The little trials we face in life prepare us for greater ones. Let&#8217;s ask Our Lord to be the coach today we need.<\/p>\n<p><em>Readings:\u00a0Hebrews 12:4\u20137, 11\u201315;\u00a0Psalm 103:1\u20132, 13\u201314, 17\u201318a;\u00a0Mark 6:1\u20136.<\/em> See also <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2016\/01\/07\/thursday-after-epiphany\/\">Thursday after Epiphany<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/08\/31\/22nd-week-in-ordinary-time-monday\/\">22nd Week in Ordinary Time, Monday<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/07\/31\/17th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday\/\">17th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/07\/05\/14th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-cycle-b\/\">14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8216;s First Reading the Letter to the Hebrews describes Christian life as a race to be run, and today the Letter continues by describing the Lord as a loving and demanding parent who tries to bring the best out of us, even when we don&#8217;t appreciate it until later on.\u00a0A coach demands the best &#8230; <a title=\"4th Week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday, Year I\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2017\/02\/01\/4th-week-in-ordinary-time-tuesday-year-i-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday, 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":[34,45,12,46],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fourth-week","tag-ordinary-time","tag-wednesday","tag-year-i"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-yo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","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=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}