{"id":3342,"date":"2023-12-18T06:52:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2023-12-18T06:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:52:16","slug":"advent-alphabet-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3342","title":{"rendered":"Advent Alphabet (P)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Prepare.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Prepare-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3343\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PREPARE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PREPARE in the desert a way for the Lord.<br>Make a straight highway for our God across the desert.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaiah imagines for the Israelites a joyous return from Exile where their fortunes are to radically changed. In order that they waste no time the prophet tells them to prepare a straight highway. They have waited long enough in Exile, now they are to travel as quickly as possible from Babylon to Jerusalem. A straight road will help them do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark the Evangelist takes this text and puts it in the mouth of John the Baptist. The sense of urgency increases as John the Baptist calls for repentance, a change of heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we hear this text in Advent it comes to us with all the urgency experienced by our ancestors in the faith. Amidst the physical preparations for Christmas we are invited to prepare our hearts for Christ&#8217;s coming. The liturgy can help us with this. It constantly calls us back to the things of the heart. The prophets call us to see the world as God sees it and to stand ready and prepared for when He comes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What helps you to prepare and be ready in Advent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Isaiah 40:1-11, Tuesday, Week Two)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PREPARE PREPARE in the desert a way for the Lord.Make a straight highway for our God across the desert. Isaiah imagines for the Israelites a joyous return from Exile where their fortunes are to radically changed. In order that they waste no time the prophet tells them to prepare a straight highway. They have waited &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Alphabet (P)&#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-3342","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\/3342","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=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3536,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}