{"id":1539,"date":"2022-04-08T07:04:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T07:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2022-04-08T07:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T07:04:21","slug":"thursday-fifth-week-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, Fifth Week of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Whoever-keeps-my-word-will-never-know-the-taste-of-death.-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Whoever-keeps-my-word-will-never-know-the-taste-of-death.-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1546\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifth Week of Lent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 8:52-59<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018The Lord remembers his covenant for ever.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the responsorial psalm verse as a repeated prayer or mantra can often be a very helpful way into the Liturgy of the Word. It\u2019s especially helpful today as the theme of covenant links our readings. God\u2019s faithfulness to us and our faithfulness to God is the foundational to the story of our salvation. We can trace a path through the Scriptures of God\u2019s desire to reach out in love to the whole of humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Gospel today Jesus confounds his hearers by declaring \u2018before Abraham came to be, I AM.\u2019 The Pharisees hear this literally. What Jesus is saying is that every covenantal promise made to Abraham and every generation thereafter comes to fulfilment in Him. This is blasphemy to their ears. It\u2019s easy to scapegoat the Pharisees and pat ourselves on the back because we can grasp what Jesus is saying. The invitation to the Pharisees and to us today is one and the same: live lives of faithfulness and love that the world may believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the remaining days of Lent how can you live in faithfulness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday Fifth Week of Lent John 8:52-59 \u2018The Lord remembers his covenant for ever.\u2019 Using the responsorial psalm verse as a repeated prayer or mantra can often be a very helpful way into the Liturgy of the Word. It\u2019s especially helpful today as the theme of covenant links our readings. God\u2019s faithfulness to us and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday, Fifth Week of Lent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monastic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}