{"id":3945,"date":"2024-04-06T05:45:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T05:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2024-04-06T05:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T05:45:05","slug":"easter-saturday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3945","title":{"rendered":"Easter Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/\u2018Go-out-to-the-whole-world-proclaim-the-Good-News-to-all-creation.-Twitter-Post.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/\u2018Go-out-to-the-whole-world-proclaim-the-Good-News-to-all-creation.-Twitter-Post-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3946\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark 16:9-15<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s shift in tone in today&#8217;s Gospel text. After the intimacy of Mary\u2019s encounter at the tomb with Jesus and then the breakfast on the seashore, today\u2019s Gospel shifts our focus. It reads as a recap of themes we\u2019ve heard during the week: refusal of the disciples to believe, the journey of the two disciples and Jesus making himself known \u2018at table.\u2019 The first hearers of this Gospel will have been challenged by the theme of disbelief in these verses. Faith in the resurrection wasn\u2019t as solid as we might imagine. Those first hearers had their commitment tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018And he said to them, \u2018Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This last verse of today\u2019s text echoes the beginning of Mark\u2019s Gospel; \u2018Repent and believe the Good News.\u2019 Things have come full circle. To believe in the Good News means to believe in the resurrection. Implicit in this believe is a call evangelise in word and deed. We are to be Christ\u2019s resurrected life for the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can you live the resurrection today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 16:9-15 There&#8217;s shift in tone in today&#8217;s Gospel text. After the intimacy of Mary\u2019s encounter at the tomb with Jesus and then the breakfast on the seashore, today\u2019s Gospel shifts our focus. It reads as a recap of themes we\u2019ve heard during the week: refusal of the disciples to believe, the journey of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Easter Saturday&#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-3945","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\/3945","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=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}