{"id":424,"date":"2014-03-31T11:43:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T11:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/?p=424"},"modified":"2016-02-23T15:49:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:49:18","slug":"walking-the-road-of-reconciliation-2nd-sunday-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/walking-the-road-of-reconciliation-2nd-sunday-of-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Road of Reconciliation &#8211; 2nd Sunday of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2018Stand up,\u2019 he said, \u2018do not be afraid\u2019 (Matt 17:8)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Song Kyrie (Taiz\u00e9)<br \/> <\/strong><strong>All sing:<\/strong> Kyrie, Kyrie eleison \u2026Christe, Christe eleison\u2026 Kyrie, Kyrie eleison<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Thought<\/strong><br \/> \u2018And we must never tire of going to ask for forgiveness. You may feel  ashamed to tell your sins, but as our mothers and our grandmothers used  to say, it is better to be red once than yellow a thousand times. We  blush once but then our sins are forgiven and we go forward.\u2019 (Pope  Francis)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reflection Three Repentance (Meister Eckhart)<\/strong><br \/> Many people think that to show sorrow for their sin they must do  extraordinary things, such as fasting, walking barefoot, and the like.<br \/> The best penitence, however, is to turn away completely from all that is  not God and not divine, whether it be in yourself or some other person,  place or thing. True repentance is approaching God in love and squarely  facing up to what you have done. Choose your own way of doing this, and  discover that the more you do it, the more real your repentance will  become. True conversion is like our Lord\u2019s passion. The more you imitate  it the more your sins will fall away<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action<\/strong><br \/> <em>Bring to your mind something that you have never confessed to  anyone. Take courage and confide in a trusted friend. You might be  surprised that a moment of embarrassment could lead to a lifetime of  peace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Daily Prayer<\/strong> Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you<\/p>\n<p><strong>Song Bless the Lord My Soul (Taiz\u00e9)<\/strong><br \/> <strong>All sing:<\/strong> Bless the Lord, my soul, and bless God\u2019s holy name<br \/> Bless the Lord, my soul, who leads me into life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer Let us pray,<\/strong><br \/> <strong> All say:<\/strong> God of truth and justice,<br \/> Give us the courage of the prodigal to face up to our faults and to  admit them. Be with us as we move from the red fear of embarrassment to  the green freedom of<br \/> confession.<br \/> Strengthen our resolve to turn away from old ways that do not give us life. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Stand up,\u2019 he said, \u2018do not be afraid\u2019 (Matt 17:8) Song Kyrie (Taiz\u00e9) All sing: Kyrie, Kyrie eleison \u2026Christe, Christe eleison\u2026 Kyrie, Kyrie eleison A Thought \u2018And we must never tire of going to ask for forgiveness. You may feel ashamed to tell your sins, but as our mothers and our grandmothers used to say,<\/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-424","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\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmarys-tallaght.ie\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}