{"id":4092,"date":"2024-05-15T05:42:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T05:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2024-05-15T05:42:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T05:42:57","slug":"wednesday-seventh-week-of-easter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4092","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, Seventh week of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/World.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/World-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4093\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John 17:11-19\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. <br>Consecrate them in the truth; your word is truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we trace the use of the word &#8216;world&#8217; through the New Testament we find that we are being asked to hold several concepts at once. In John&#8217;s Gospel we hear that <br>Jesus and his followers, &#8216;do not belong&#8217; to the world but are sent into it. And then at the same time we hear that God &#8216;so loved the world&#8217; that he sent his Son to redeem it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Christian tradition of monasticism presents a similar picture with its classic teaching of &#8216;fleeing the world&#8217; (fuga mundi) on the one hand and its significant contribution to learning, agriculture and even champagne production, on the other. I think it&#8217;s fair to say that monastics have always been steering a middle course.  In his Rule, St Benedict urges his monks: &#8216;Your way of acting should be different from the world&#8217;s way: the love of Christ must come before all else.&#8217; I find this helpful because it gives a focus and sets the counter cultural choice of monastic life in the context of love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can you put the love of Christ before all else today? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 17:11-19\u00a0 They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth; your word is truth. If we trace the use of the word &#8216;world&#8217; through the New Testament we find that we are being asked to hold several concepts at once. In John&#8217;s Gospel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday, Seventh week 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-4092","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\/4092","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=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}