{"id":5503,"date":"2026-04-21T05:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:42:50","slug":"eastertide-alphabet-g-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5503","title":{"rendered":"Eastertide Alphabet (G)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Glory-G-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Glory-G-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5504\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Glory-G-1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Glory-G-1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Glory-G-1-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Glory-G-1-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Glory-G-1-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Glory-G-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GLORY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening of John&#8217;s Gospel weaves together in poetic prose the major theological themes that we will encounter in its pages: life, light, love and glory. It&#8217;s hard to explore one without exploring all three. Glory is perhaps the most difficult to quantify and understand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Hebrew mind the word glory (kavod) has a range of meanings which include &#8216;importance&#8217;, &#8216;honour&#8217; and &#8216;weight&#8217;. Related to kavod is another Hebrew word &#8216;shekinah&#8217; which is a way of talking about the divine presence. Kavod and shekinah then are both ways of talking about the felt presence of a loving, saving and guiding God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the writer of John&#8217;s Gospel, God&#8217;s glory is seen very specifically when the Word becomes flesh. Every thought, word and action of Christ is a manifestation of God&#8217;s glory. This is why in John&#8217;s Gospel the moment of crucifixion is seen as a moment of triumph and glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In baptism we are sealed with Chrism and caught up in God&#8217;s glory too. What Christ prays to the Father in these words &#8216;<strong>so that they may always see<\/strong> <strong>the glory you<\/strong> <strong>have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.<\/strong> &#8216; can be our prayer too. Eastertide gives us the opportunity to stay with these words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How is God calling you to manifest his glory?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(John 17:20-26, Thursday, Eastertide, Week 7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLORY The opening of John&#8217;s Gospel weaves together in poetic prose the major theological themes that we will encounter in its pages: life, light, love and glory. It&#8217;s hard to explore one without exploring all three. Glory is perhaps the most difficult to quantify and understand. For the Hebrew mind the word glory (kavod) has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5503\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eastertide Alphabet (G)&#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-5503","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\/5503","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=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5506,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}