{"id":2861,"date":"2020-06-01T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2020-06-01T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T13:37:26","slug":"st-john-19-25-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"St John 19: 25-34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>St John 19: 25-34<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s Gospel for the Memorial of Mary Mother of the Church, we see the remnant of faithful disciples along side Our Blessed Mother, Mary. From this small faithful group and others will arise the Church. As they stand beneath the cross, Jesus addresses St John \u201cbehold thy mother\u201d. Jesus fulfils the fourth commandment \u201chonour your father and your mother\u201d. Jesus in his last moments ensures the future well being and safety of his Mother in his absence. In these words, we understand the intensity and respect Jesus has for Mary.<\/p>\n<p>To his mother Mary he says \u201cbehold thy son.\u201d\u00a0 Mary has generously desired to do all that God asked of her, she fully accepted God\u2019s will and there was never any inconsistency between Mary\u2019s life and the commitment to Her faith. Mary is entrusted by Jesus therefore to be also our spiritual mother, as she embodies everything the authentic, complete and perfect disciple is called to become. The mother of Jesus becomes the mother of the Church and of all God\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<p>Within a year of becoming Pope, St John Paul II made an Apostolic Pilgrimage to his beloved Poland. On the last day of his visit on the 6<sup>th<\/sup> June 1979 at the Jasna Gora Shrine to the Virgin of Czestochowa he prayed the following.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Lady of the bright mountains, Mother of the Church. Once more, I consecrate myself to you, in your maternal slavery of love. Mother accept us. Mother do not abandon us. Mother be our guide. Totus tuus. All is yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St John 19: 25-34 In today\u2019s Gospel for the Memorial of Mary Mother of the Church, we see the remnant of faithful disciples along side Our Blessed Mother, Mary. From this small faithful group and others will arise the Church. As they stand beneath the cross, Jesus addresses St John \u201cbehold thy mother\u201d. Jesus fulfils &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=2861\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/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","post-2861","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-K9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","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=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}