{"id":1780,"date":"2022-05-23T05:56:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2022-05-23T05:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:56:05","slug":"monday-sixth-week-of-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"Monday, Sixth Week of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Monday-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Monday-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1786\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John 15:26-16:4a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You too shall be my witnesses,<br>because you have been with me from the beginning.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up in the North East in the 70s and 80s I don\u2019t think I ever heard the words \u2018mission\u2019 or \u2018discipleship\u2019 in relation to my own faith journey. Neither did I have any sense of having to \u2018witness\u2019 to my faith. I moved in almost entirely Catholic circles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choosing to enter a monastery changed things for me. In those months before entering I found myself explaining my counter cultural choice to all kinds of people. There was understandable bemusement as to why anyone would want to &#8216;shut themselves away.&#8217; But the reality of monastic life was not that I was now hidden, but rather that I was saying publicly that in this place and with these people I will seek God and try to live the Gospel. This was and is my witness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now today I&#8217;m writing this post for my blog, Facebook and Twitter. There&#8217;s a dimension to my witness that I could never have imagined 30 yrs ago. With Twitter in particular, you never know who will scroll by and stop to read a tweet. You never know how the Spirit will move. In a world where many feel disconnected, I now have the tools to connect and, in a small way, spread the Gospel.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can you use the tools which God has given you to spread the Gospel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image: antony-bec, Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 15:26-16:4a You too shall be my witnesses,because you have been with me from the beginning. Growing up in the North East in the 70s and 80s I don\u2019t think I ever heard the words \u2018mission\u2019 or \u2018discipleship\u2019 in relation to my own faith journey. Neither did I have any sense of having to \u2018witness\u2019 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday, Sixth Week of Easter&#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-1780","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\/1780","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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}