{"id":4930,"date":"2025-10-10T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:05:15","slug":"jubilee-of-consecrated-life-st-benedict-pilgrim-of-hope-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4930","title":{"rendered":"Jubilee of Consecrated Life: St Benedict, Pilgrim of Hope (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Picture1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4931\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Picture1.jpg 604w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Picture1-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For the daily meals, whether at noon or in midafternoon, it is enough we believe, to provide all tables with two kinds of cooked food because of individual weaknesses. In this way, the person who may not be able to eat of one kind of food may partake of the other.<\/em><br>Ch. 39, The Proper Amount of Food<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St Benedict&#8217;s chapters on the practical workings of the monastery may surprise us in their ordinariness. Given that St Benedict is writing in the Sixth Century we might expect guidelines that were more obviously ascetic. But instead we see the compassionate heart of a man who understands human weakness. The chapter is  careful and tentative in places and if we read between the lines we have the sense that in the monastery the physical and spiritual are intimately connected. St Benedict wants his community to avoid anything that might harm both body or soul. There&#8217;s real hope in this incarnational theology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where in your own life are you called to honour the individual weaknesses of others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image: Turvey Abbey<br>In monastic tradition we do not eat meat on Wednesdays on Fridays. This is a simple lunch of butternut squash, puy lentils, hazelnuts and coriander. On weekdays we have fruit and a biscuit or small piece of cake for dessert. On Sundays and Feasts have a &#8216;proper&#8217; dessert.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the daily meals, whether at noon or in midafternoon, it is enough we believe, to provide all tables with two kinds of cooked food because of individual weaknesses. In this way, the person who may not be able to eat of one kind of food may partake of the other.Ch. 39, The Proper Amount &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jubilee of Consecrated Life: St Benedict, Pilgrim of Hope (5)&#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-4930","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\/4930","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=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}