{"id":4455,"date":"2025-03-15T06:40:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T06:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2025-03-15T06:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T06:40:31","slug":"saturday-in-the-first-week-of-lent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4455","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 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\/Dads-are-the-luckiest.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dads-are-the-luckiest-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4456\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dads-are-the-luckiest-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dads-are-the-luckiest-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dads-are-the-luckiest-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dads-are-the-luckiest-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dads-are-the-luckiest-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dads-are-the-luckiest.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deuteronomy 26:16-19<br>Matthew 5:43-48<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;<strong>The Lord your God commands you today to observe these laws and customs; you must keep them with all your heart and all your soul.<\/strong>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Book of Deuteronomy is a favourite of mine. Commentators have drawn my attention to the number of times the \u2018heart\u2019 is mentioned. What Deuteronomy offers is a way of the heart. Every thought, every action is to be directed towards God. The keeping of God\u2019s commandments is something which frees us and expands our hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar themes are echoed in Ps 118 today. Here we are invited to do God&#8217;s will and to seek him with all our hearts. The whole Psalm is a long meditation on the disposition of those who seek God alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we want to keep God&#8217;s commands we need space in our hearts. Lent offers the chance to do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can you make space in your heart this Lent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deuteronomy 26:16-19Matthew 5:43-48 &#8216;The Lord your God commands you today to observe these laws and customs; you must keep them with all your heart and all your soul.&#8216; The Book of Deuteronomy is a favourite of mine. Commentators have drawn my attention to the number of times the \u2018heart\u2019 is mentioned. What Deuteronomy offers is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday 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-4455","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\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4457,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}