{"id":2231,"date":"2017-02-24T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T07:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2019-03-01T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:25:18","slug":"7th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday-year-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2017\/02\/24\/7th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday-year-i\/","title":{"rendered":"7th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday, Year I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who uses FaceBook occasionally receives a post from a &#8220;friend&#8221; who wonders whether his &#8220;friends&#8221; are willing to show their friendship. He asks his post be re-posted on his &#8220;friend&#8217;s&#8221; FaceBook to show not only that his &#8220;friend&#8221; is reading his posts, but that he acknowledges him publicly as a friend. Not surprisingly some &#8220;friends&#8221; get upset at this kind of request. FaceBook probably chose to name the magic button &#8220;friend&#8221; because &#8220;acquaintance&#8221; was too long a word.<\/p>\n<p>Sirach in today&#8217;s First Reading reminds us that there is a difference between a friend and an acquaintance: a friend is someone you can trust and count on; an acquaintance is simply someone you know. Some friends do not go the distance: they&#8217;re friends in fair weather, but abandon ship in hard times. They turn on you when you upset them. That&#8217;s why a true and faithful friend is a rare treasure, and it&#8217;s only something you discover over time. That doesn&#8217;t mean avoiding others; Sirach also counsels us to be on good terms with everyone, but also to be very cautious in making friends.<\/p>\n<p>We all have a faithful friend who fits the profile perfectly: a sturdy shelter, beyond price, and a life-saving remedy. You already know His name. Why not get in touch with Him today if you haven&#8217;t spoken in a while? No FaceBook required.<\/p>\n<p><em>Readings:\u00a0Sirach 6:5\u201317; Psalm 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34\u201335; Mark 10:1\u201312.\u00a0<\/em>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/08\/14\/19th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday\/\">19th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/10\/04\/27th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-cycle-b\/\">27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freeemailtutorials.com\/freeFacebookTutorials\/i\/Send-a-friend-request-on-Facebook.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who uses FaceBook occasionally receives a post from a &#8220;friend&#8221; who wonders whether his &#8220;friends&#8221; are willing to show their friendship. He asks his post be re-posted on his &#8220;friend&#8217;s&#8221; FaceBook to show not only that his &#8220;friend&#8221; is reading his posts, but that he acknowledges him publicly as a friend. Not surprisingly some &#8230; <a title=\"7th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday, Year I\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2017\/02\/24\/7th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday-year-i\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday, 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":[8,45,41,46],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-friday","tag-ordinary-time","tag-seventh-week","tag-year-i"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-zZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}