{"id":4344,"date":"2024-12-30T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T10:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2024-12-30T10:40:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T10:40:20","slug":"sixth-day-within-the-octave-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4344","title":{"rendered":"Sixth Day within the Octave of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Untitled-Twitter-Post-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Untitled-Twitter-Post-3-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4348\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Untitled-Twitter-Post-3-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Untitled-Twitter-Post-3-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Untitled-Twitter-Post-3-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Untitled-Twitter-Post-3-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Untitled-Twitter-Post-3-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Untitled-Twitter-Post-3.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke 2:36-40<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have always loved the prophetess Anna. There is an air of mystery about her as I try to imagine what it would mean to never leave the Temple. Anna has a single focus: she&#8217;s there to serve God until her last breath. She stands in a tradition of men and women whose whole lives are given over to the single-hearted service of God. Anna&#8217;s heart and mind must have been finely tuned to the things of God.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Boulding&#8217;s description of the chosen people in her book, The Coming of God, expresses something of how I imagine Anna:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018The chosen people were created to be a centre of attunement, receptivity and expectation, a place of felt need and desire. They were to listen to God\u2019s word, to long for him, and to be the womb-community which would bring forth the One who was to come.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who are the Annas in your own life?<br>How is God calling you to listen to his Word and to long for him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 2:36-40 I have always loved the prophetess Anna. There is an air of mystery about her as I try to imagine what it would mean to never leave the Temple. Anna has a single focus: she&#8217;s there to serve God until her last breath. She stands in a tradition of men and women whose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4344\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sixth Day within the Octave of Christmas&#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-4344","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\/4344","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=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}