{"id":2593,"date":"2020-04-19T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2020-04-19T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T10:53:07","slug":"divine-mercy-sunday-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=2593","title":{"rendered":"Divine Mercy Sunday Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read a short reflection on today\u2019s Gospel, John 20:19-31, below. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s3\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">In today\u2019s Gospel we hear the about St Thomas, our patron\u2019s doubt but more importantly<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> his climactic profession of faith, that absolute assertion of faith in the divinity of Christ \u201cMy Lord and My God\u201d. St Thomas\u2019s doubts and touching are changed into a witness of the truth and of the resurrection, the grace of God<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> heals St Thomas\u2019s incredulity. We also need God\u2019s grace to believe and to deepen our faith, free us from our incredulity and empower us to witness to the Risen Lord.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read a short reflection on today\u2019s Gospel, John 20:19-31, below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-2593","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-FP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}