{"id":3033,"date":"2023-06-22T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2023-06-22T06:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T06:02:44","slug":"saints-john-fisher-and-thomas-more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"Saints John Fisher and Thomas More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/They-will-hand-you-over-to-be-tortured-and-put-to-death-and-you-will-be-hated-by-all-the-nations-on-account-of-my-name.-1-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/They-will-hand-you-over-to-be-tortured-and-put-to-death-and-you-will-be-hated-by-all-the-nations-on-account-of-my-name.-1-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3034\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthew 24:4-13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Collect for today&#8217;s feast we hear these words;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;graciously grant that, strengthened through the intercession of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, we may confirm by the witness of our life the faith we profess with our lips.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This encapsulates the basic truth that the faith into which we were baptised is something which permeates every aspect of our lives. Our baptism into Christ&#8217;s death and resurrection will mean that suffering will never be far away. But by the same token, joy and new life will be within our grasp too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Matthew writes his Gospel and warns of persecution and danger, his hearers have already experienced the fragility of belonging to a minority group. They face hostility on all sides. Every story where Jesus meets opposition is a paradigm for the resolve that they will need as the Christian community grows. Matthew&#8217;s urges them not to be &#8216;alarmed&#8217;. To be followers of the Way necessarily involves suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we celebrate Sts John Fisher and Thomas More we celebrate the potential of every human being to be single-hearted and to choose what is noble and true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where in your life is Christ calling you to be single hearted?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 24:4-13 In the Collect for today&#8217;s feast we hear these words; &#8216;graciously grant that, strengthened through the intercession of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, we may confirm by the witness of our life the faith we profess with our lips.&#8217; This encapsulates the basic truth that the faith into which we were baptised &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saints John Fisher and Thomas More&#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-3033","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\/3033","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=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}