{"id":4441,"date":"2025-03-12T07:33:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2025-03-12T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:43:09","slug":"wednesday-in-the-first-week-of-lent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4441","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday in the First Week of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-people-of-Nineveh-proclaimed-a-fast-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-people-of-Nineveh-proclaimed-a-fast-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4442\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-people-of-Nineveh-proclaimed-a-fast-1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-people-of-Nineveh-proclaimed-a-fast-1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-people-of-Nineveh-proclaimed-a-fast-1-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-people-of-Nineveh-proclaimed-a-fast-1-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-people-of-Nineveh-proclaimed-a-fast-1-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-people-of-Nineveh-proclaimed-a-fast-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jonah 3:1-10<br>Luke 11:29-32<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;<strong>The people of Nineveh believed in God:<br>they proclaimed a fast and put on sack cloth, <br>from the greatest to the least.<\/strong>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am very fond of the Book of Jonah. Jonah is a bit grumpy and doesn\u2019t quite trust that his preaching mission will take off. But it does. There is no subtlety in Jonah&#8217;s message. The people have 40 days to get back on track or everything will be destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes we need a wake up call. Sometimes that call can be subtle. Sometimes it is very loud and obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is striking that all the inhabitants of Nineveh, cattle included, take part in this solemn fast. It is worth reflecting on how much the support of a group can carry us along when we feel the journey is long and hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you called to a change of heart this Lent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah 3:1-10Luke 11:29-32 &#8216;The people of Nineveh believed in God:they proclaimed a fast and put on sack cloth, from the greatest to the least.&#8216; I am very fond of the Book of Jonah. Jonah is a bit grumpy and doesn\u2019t quite trust that his preaching mission will take off. But it does. There is no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday in the First Week of Lent&#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-4441","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\/4441","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=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}