{"id":5113,"date":"2025-12-03T11:09:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:09:33","slug":"first-week-of-advent-wednesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5113","title":{"rendered":"First Week of Advent, Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isaiah-25-Week-One-W-Twitter-Post.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isaiah-25-Week-One-W-Twitter-Post-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5114\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isaiah-25-Week-One-W-Twitter-Post-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isaiah-25-Week-One-W-Twitter-Post-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isaiah-25-Week-One-W-Twitter-Post-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isaiah-25-Week-One-W-Twitter-Post-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isaiah-25-Week-One-W-Twitter-Post-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Isaiah-25-Week-One-W-Twitter-Post.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Is 25:6-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I made my Solemn Profession in 2000 our artist, Sr Regina, made me a card with the text;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018On this mountain, the Lord of hosts will prepare for all peoples a banquet of rich food, a banquet of fine wines, of food rich and juicy, of fine strained wines.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;I think this was her way of linking my job as kitchen manager with eschatological vision of the kingdom. I\u2019ve always loved this vision of God\u2019s abundance and generosity. There\u2019s no portion control in God\u2019s kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After giving us an assurance of limitless food provision, the text then moves to an image that is equally powerful. God promises to \u2018wipe away the tears from every cheek.\u2019 As a teacher I\u2019ve sat with many a small child breaking their heart over something which has overwhelmed them. Isaiah\u2019s image is human and deeply re-assuring. We need the visions and poetry which acknowledge our human condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grief has swept our world this past year. We have had scenes of anguish of every kind. In so many situations people experienced a powerlessness that paralyses. Probably for many it\u2019s almost impossible to imagine a time when tears will be wiped away. Isaiah\u2019s vision invites us to yield in some way to our present circumstances, while holding fast to God\u2019s promises for the future. This is not a once and for all thing. It\u2019s something we do daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can you hold fast to Isaiah&#8217;s promise this Advent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is 25:6-10 When I made my Solemn Profession in 2000 our artist, Sr Regina, made me a card with the text; \u2018On this mountain, the Lord of hosts will prepare for all peoples a banquet of rich food, a banquet of fine wines, of food rich and juicy, of fine strained wines.\u2019 &nbsp;I think this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Week of Advent, Wednesday&#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-5113","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\/5113","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=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5117,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}