{"id":2689,"date":"2023-03-27T05:50:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T05:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2023-03-27T05:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T05:50:47","slug":"monday-in-the-fifth-week-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":"Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/164003277_10158159489450098_5616748377267067423_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/164003277_10158159489450098_5616748377267067423_n-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2691\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daniel 13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62<\/strong><br><strong>John 8:1-11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is perhaps one of the most tender encounters in all of the Gospels. We picture the uncomfortable scene of a woman brought by the Pharisees to Jesus. In the eyes of the crowd she is in disgrace. But Jesus diffuses a situation, shifting the focus away from the woman and writing in the dust. With this simple action he makes space for the woman. He makes a frightening situation safe for her.  We will never know what he wrote. And this, for me, makes the encounter all the more tender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sense of tenderness and safety is echoed so clearly in Psalm 22, today&#8217;s responsorial Psalm. There are so many words of comfort:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>repose<br>restful<br>revive<br>guide<br>comfort<br>anointed<br>comfort<br>kindness<br>goodness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus then stands before the woman as an embodiment of all of these words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I reflect on the story I find myself wondering where I stand. Do I stand with the crowd? Do I stand with Jesus? Do I stand with the woman? Do I stand with the teachers of the law and the Pharisees? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I&#8217;d like to imagine myself always standing with Jesus and the woman, I need to acknowledge those times when judgment looms large for me. Lent gives us the chance to look again at our assumptions and judgments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can you make a safe space for another?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel 13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62John 8:1-11 This is perhaps one of the most tender encounters in all of the Gospels. We picture the uncomfortable scene of a woman brought by the Pharisees to Jesus. In the eyes of the crowd she is in disgrace. But Jesus diffuses a situation, shifting the focus away from the woman and writing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday in the 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-2689","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\/2689","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=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}