{"id":4594,"date":"2025-04-05T05:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T05:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2025-04-05T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T05:43:10","slug":"saturday-in-the-fourth-week-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4594","title":{"rendered":"Saturday in the Fourth Week of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Harvest-Festival-2020-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Harvest-Festival-2020-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4595\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Harvest-Festival-2020-1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Harvest-Festival-2020-1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Harvest-Festival-2020-1-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Harvest-Festival-2020-1-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Harvest-Festival-2020-1-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Harvest-Festival-2020-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeremiah 11:18-20<br>John 7:40-52 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where you come from seems to matter a great deal in the Bible. It\u2019s not just your town or village that is under scrutiny, but your parents too. In its best light this is about being able to trace the path of God\u2019s promise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The promise of the Messiah, the Anointed One, gives the people great hope. For those who anticipated a powerful political Messiah the idea that he could come from the relatively obscure town of Galilee would seem almost ridiculous. They have read the biblical sources in such a way so as not to be able to recognise Jesus as the Messiah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We read the text with hindsight knowing only too well how things are engineered so that Jesus is actually born of David\u2019s line and in Bethlehem. This requires two plot twists for God\u2019s plan to be fulfilled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being able to see the way in which God has worked in the past can help you make sense of the present and encourage you to look to the future with hope. It isn\u2019t always easy to see the hand of God in our own lives or to see or hear some things as prophetic. Often its only in looking back that we glimpse God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflect on your faith journey. How has God been at work in your life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BirgitteUna\/status\/1510185586556030976\/photo\/1\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah 11:18-20John 7:40-52 Where you come from seems to matter a great deal in the Bible. It\u2019s not just your town or village that is under scrutiny, but your parents too. In its best light this is about being able to trace the path of God\u2019s promise. The promise of the Messiah, the Anointed One, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday 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-4594","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\/4594","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=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4596,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/4596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}