{"id":417,"date":"2014-03-08T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T14:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/?p=417"},"modified":"2016-02-23T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:50:13","slug":"walking-the-road-of-reconciliation-1st-sunday-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/walking-the-road-of-reconciliation-1st-sunday-of-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Road of Reconciliation &#8211; 1st Sunday of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>My offences truly I know them (Psalm 50:3) <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Song Be Merciful, O Lord (Stephen Pishner)<\/strong><br \/> <strong>All sing:<\/strong> Be merciful, O Lord, we have sinned, we have sinned<br \/> Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Thought<\/strong><br \/> \u2018Concreteness, honesty, and the genuine ability to be ashamed of one\u2019s  mistakes are all qualities needed in order to be open to the forgiveness  of God, as well as the deep awareness of his love.\u2019 (Pope Francis)  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Reflection Two<\/strong><br \/> The story of the Good Thief on the cross beside Jesus is a story of hope  for us. If Christ did not reject a condemned criminal who, at the last  minute, confessed Him and asked to be remembered in his kingdom, do we  think that Christ will reject us if we approach Him with the same faith  and humility now? God is loving, merciful, kind, welcoming, and is  always waiting for us to turn to him. He justified the criminal in one  moment and he can do the same for us.<\/p>\n<p>In one moment, O Lord,<br \/> You graciously granted paradise to the penitential thief.<br \/> Now by the tree of your Cross,<br \/> Enlighten, sanctify and save me.<br \/> <em>(The Hymn of Light from Matins of Good Friday)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Action<\/strong><br \/> <em>The Good Thief who died on the cross beside Jesus teaches us about  healing our hearts. He looks into himself, sees his failings, and then  asks Jesus to simply remember him. Take time each day to place your hand  on your heart and to remember your own weaknesses and failings. Finish  this task by reciting the daily prayer with hand on heart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Daily Prayer<\/strong> Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Song Jesus Remember Me (Taiz\u00e9)<\/strong><br \/> <strong>All sing<\/strong>: Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom<br \/> Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer Let us pray,<\/strong><br \/> God of truth and mercy,<br \/> Give us the grace of insight to know our own shortcomings and the areas of our lives in need of change and renewal.<br \/> We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My offences truly I know them (Psalm 50:3) Song Be Merciful, O Lord (Stephen Pishner) All sing: Be merciful, O Lord, we have sinned, we have sinned Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned. A Thought \u2018Concreteness, honesty, and the genuine ability to be ashamed of one\u2019s mistakes are all qualities needed in order<\/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-417","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\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}