{"id":3526,"date":"2023-12-24T06:46:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2023-12-24T06:46:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:46:24","slug":"advent-alphabet-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3526","title":{"rendered":"Advent Alphabet (X)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/O-Emmanuel-king-and-lawgiver-1-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/O-Emmanuel-king-and-lawgiver-1-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3566\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CHRIST<br>\u03a7\u03c1\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;This is how Jesus CHRIST came to be born.&#8217; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew begins his gospel with a lengthy genealogy which requires great concentration, whether you are listening to it or reading it aloud. It&#8217;s not unlike having a complicated story plot explained or trying to work out how you are related to a distant relative. The lineage which Matthew lays out so carefully is our lineage too. We are as much reliant on God&#8217;s promise as our Biblical ancestors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew tells his story through Joseph&#8217;s eyes. Joseph&#8217;s Davidic descent is all important here. This descent, so carefully explained, embeds Jesus very firmly in Jewish tradition. Two leaps of faith are required for God&#8217;s plan to come to fulfilment: Mary&#8217;s &#8216;yes&#8217; and Joseph&#8217;s willingness to be a father to Jesus.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are almost at the end of our Advent journey. The path of promise that we have traced through the Scriptures doesn&#8217;t come to an end with Christ&#8217;s birth. The unique story of how each of us came to be born stands alongside the birth of our Saviour.  God still waits for our &#8216;yes&#8217; and our willingness to enter deeper into the mystery of the Incarnation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look back over Advent.<br>How have you been drawn deeper into the mystery of the Incarnation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Matthew 1:18-24, 19th Dec)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHRIST\u03a7\u03c1\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 &#8216;This is how Jesus CHRIST came to be born.&#8217; Matthew begins his gospel with a lengthy genealogy which requires great concentration, whether you are listening to it or reading it aloud. It&#8217;s not unlike having a complicated story plot explained or trying to work out how you are related to a distant relative. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3526\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Alphabet (X)&#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-3526","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\/3526","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=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}