{"id":4053,"date":"2024-05-05T05:51:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T05:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2024-05-05T05:51:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T05:51:25","slug":"sixth-sunday-of-easter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4053","title":{"rendered":"Sixth Sunday of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-A-man-can-have-no-greater-love-than-to-lay-down-his-life-for-his-friends.-You-are-my-friends-if-you-do-what-I-command-you.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-A-man-can-have-no-greater-love-than-to-lay-down-his-life-for-his-friends.-You-are-my-friends-if-you-do-what-I-command-you-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4054\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John 15:9-17\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No\u00a0one\u00a0has greater love\u00a0than this,<br>to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.<br>You are my friends<br>if you do what I command you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few of us will be called upon to lay down our lives for our friends. Though we probably all hope that if a big sacrifice of some sort is asked of us we will have the courage to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the pandemic and now in the ongoing areas of conflict in our world, we witness the love that is prepared to put others first. Some will have had little choice over their working conditions and others were prepared to take the risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the heart of our Christian story we have not a philosophy or a set of principles, but a human being who embodied selfless service and self-emptying love. Christ is our pattern for every part of our lives. Often on the feast of a martyr we sing \u2018The Martyrs Living now with Christ\u2019, a hymn written by Stanbrook Abbey. This verse always stands out for me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one has ever measured love<br>Or weighed it in their hand,<br>But God knows the inmost heart<br>Gives them the promised land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s God who knows the depth of our love and our willingness to give. It\u2019s God who sees the bigger picture of our lives and how we try to image Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us always remember the people in our lives who quietly and unobstrusively have shown us this self-emptying love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 15:9-17\u00a0 No\u00a0one\u00a0has greater love\u00a0than this,to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.You are my friendsif you do what I command you. Few of us will be called upon to lay down our lives for our friends. Though we probably all hope that if a big sacrifice of some sort is asked of us we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4053\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sixth Sunday of Easter&#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-4053","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\/4053","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=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}