{"id":571,"date":"2004-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=571"},"modified":"2004-06-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-20T00:00:00","slug":"reflection-on-todays-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on today&#8217;s reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>n earlier times, one of the most common hidden heresies                            was to reserve the name of Church to only part of it,                            a sort of sacralised power &#8211; &#8216;the body of pastors with                            the Roman Pontiff&#8217;. Vatican II reacted against this                            concept by changing the order of Chs. 2 and 3 of Lumen                            Gentium, placing the chapter dedicated to the people                            of God ahead of the chapter dedicated to the hierarchy.                            Unfortunately Vatican II&#8217;s outlook has not affected                            the mentality of many Church people. One fears that                            today many ministers believe themselves Church, not                            for being Christians, but for being priests or bishops.<br \/>\nYet St Augustine shows us that he knew he was Church                            for being a christian, not for being a bishop. He says                            &#8216;I am a christian with you and a bishop for you. What                            I am for you terifies me, what I am with you consoles                            me.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In earlier times, one of the most common hidden heresies was to reserve the name of Church to only part of it, a sort of sacralised power &#8211; &#8216;the body of pastors with the Roman Pontiff&#8217;. Vatican II reacted against this concept by changing the order of Chs. 2 and 3 of Lumen Gentium, placing the chapter dedicated to the people of God ahead of the chapter dedicated to the hierarchy. Unfortunately Vatican II&#8217;s outlook has not affected the mentality of many Church people. One fears that today many ministers believe themselves Church, not for being Christians, but for being &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=571\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morsels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}