{"id":416,"date":"2014-03-08T14:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T14:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/?p=416"},"modified":"2016-02-23T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:50:35","slug":"walking-the-road-of-reconciliation-ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/walking-the-road-of-reconciliation-ash-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Road of Reconciliation &#8211; Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Come back to me with all your heart (Hosea 14:1)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Song Come Back to Me (Gregory Norbet)<\/strong><br \/> <strong>All sing:<\/strong> Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life.<br \/> A Thought \u2018Jesus in the confessional is not a dry cleaner. Confession is  an encounter with Jesus, with this Jesus who waits for us, who waits  for us just as we are.\u2019 (Pope Francis)  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Reflection One Christ the Bridge (St. Catherine of Siena)<\/strong><br \/> I have made a bridge of my Word\u2026I gave you a bridge, my Son, so that you  could cross over the river, without being drowned\u2026I want you to look at  the bridge and notice its greatness\u2026 the bridge has walls and a roof of  mercy \u2026it stretches from heaven to earth, joining the earth of your  humanity with the greatness of God\u2026so the height stooped to the earth of  your humanity, bridging the gulf between us and rebuilding the road\u2026my  Son\u2019s having made of himself a bridge for you would not bring you to  life unless you make your way along that bridge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action<\/strong><br \/> <em>You might consider starting the journey of reconciliation by  approaching one person who you have offended recently or in the past and  with whom you want to make up. If that is not possible, for whatever  reason, you might write a letter of apology even if you never send it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Daily Prayer <\/strong>O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended you\u2026`<\/p>\n<p><strong>Song: Bridge Over Troubled Waters ( Paul Simon )<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer Let us pray,<\/strong><br \/> <strong>All say:<\/strong> Compassionate and loving God,<br \/> Open our hearts to the grace of forgiveness that flows so generously from yours.<br \/> May your patient love and acceptance encourage us to take the first step along the bridge of reconciliation.<br \/> Sustain us on that journey especially when we are tempted to give up. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come back to me with all your heart (Hosea 14:1) Song Come Back to Me (Gregory Norbet) All sing: Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life. A Thought \u2018Jesus in the confessional is not a dry cleaner. Confession is an encounter with Jesus, with this Jesus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feasts-celebrations","category-lenten-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}