{"id":4540,"date":"2025-03-31T05:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T05:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2025-03-31T05:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T05:58:23","slug":"monday-in-the-fourth-week-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4540","title":{"rendered":"Monday in the Fourth Week of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-Joy-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-Joy-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4543\" style=\"width:705px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-Joy-2-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-Joy-2-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-Joy-2-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-Joy-2-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-Joy-2-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Copy-of-Joy-2.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Isaiah 65:17-21<\/strong><br><strong>John 4:43-54<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naming a child carries such significance. In biblical times the naming of a child could serve as a way of remembering a significant event. The name Moses comes from the root verb \u2018to draw&#8217; or &#8216;pull out\u2019, because he was drawn out of the River Nile. His name would always be a reminder of God\u2019s providence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s passage from Isaiah imagines God naming Jerusalem and her people. The names \u2018Joy\u2019 and \u2018Gladness\u2019 carry such huge potential and all the more so because Jerusalem has suffered destruction and her people exile. It\u2019s as if God sees what they can\u2019t. This promise of restoration and new life speaks directly to the despondency the Israelites feel as they find themselves in exile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you imagine a name that God might give you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 65:17-21John 4:43-54 Naming a child carries such significance. In biblical times the naming of a child could serve as a way of remembering a significant event. The name Moses comes from the root verb \u2018to draw&#8217; or &#8216;pull out\u2019, because he was drawn out of the River Nile. His name would always be a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday in the Fourth 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-4540","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\/4540","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=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4545,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions\/4545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}