{"id":1575,"date":"2022-04-13T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T06:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2022-04-13T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T06:53:06","slug":"wednesday-of-holy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday of Holy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/166931975_10158178587170098_4538264029743438041_n-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/166931975_10158178587170098_4538264029743438041_n-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1576\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday of Holy Week<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew 26:14-25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we have Matthew\u2019s telling of the Last Supper. Once again Judas is in full focus and his actions seem inevitable. Those thirty pieces of silver are lodged in our collective imagination through art, poetry and hymnody. You\u2019ll even find a reminder of this in the Danish name for Honesty, Judas Penge (Judas\u2019 money) and German, Judas Schilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stories of betrayal are always uncomfortable. Betrayal can happen in a matter of seconds. We can say or do something that we can never take back. Perhaps Judas stands for all of our moments of betrayal? Perhaps he stands for all the times we have \u2018headed out into the night\u2019? Perhaps he stands for all those times we have watched our hope die and made a wrong choice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice the words and phrases which strike you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday of Holy Week Matthew 26:14-25 Today we have Matthew\u2019s telling of the Last Supper. Once again Judas is in full focus and his actions seem inevitable. Those thirty pieces of silver are lodged in our collective imagination through art, poetry and hymnody. You\u2019ll even find a reminder of this in the Danish name for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1575\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday of Holy Week&#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-1575","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\/1575","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=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}