{"id":2542,"date":"2023-03-07T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2023-03-07T06:53:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T06:53:45","slug":"tuesday-in-the-second-week-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday in the Second Week of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/156008126_10158113800890098_3858928629129541961_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/156008126_10158113800890098_3858928629129541961_n-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2543\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Isaiah 1:10. 16-20<br>Matthew 23:1-12<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wash, make yourselves clean.<br>Take your wrong-doing out of my sight.<br>Cease to do evil.<br>Learn to do good,<br>search for justice,<br>help the oppressed,<br>be just to the orphan,<br>plead for the widow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of my favourite pieces of Hebrew poetry. It has a rhythm which makes it easy to memorise. It\u2019s an uncompromising message and it\u2019s meant to be. The prophet\u2019s job is to see the world as God sees it. Isaiah is impatient with a way of living which compartmentalises worship and daily life: the two must go together. In just a few verses we have a whole programme for Gospel living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wash<br>Take<br>Cease<br>Search<br>Learn<br>Help<br>Be just<br>Plead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Rule of St Benedict, Lent is seen as a time when we &#8216;wash away in this holy season the negligences of other times.&#8217; It sounds a little gentler than Isaiah&#8217;s message, but the result can be the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you hear Isaiah&#8217;s message this Lent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 1:10. 16-20Matthew 23:1-12 Wash, make yourselves clean.Take your wrong-doing out of my sight.Cease to do evil.Learn to do good,search for justice,help the oppressed,be just to the orphan,plead for the widow. This is one of my favourite pieces of Hebrew poetry. It has a rhythm which makes it easy to memorise. It\u2019s an uncompromising message &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuesday in the Second 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-2542","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\/2542","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=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}