{"id":5533,"date":"2026-05-04T18:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:09:51","slug":"eastertide-alphabet-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5533","title":{"rendered":"Eastertide Alphabet (O)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Obedience-O-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Obedience-O-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5534\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Obedience-O-1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Obedience-O-1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Obedience-O-1-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Obedience-O-1-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Obedience-O-1-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Obedience-O-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018OBEDIENCE to God comes before obedience to men; it&nbsp;was the God of our ancestors who raised up Jesus, but it was you who had him executed by hanging on a tree.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I have lived for more than 30 years in a Benedictine monastery. It&#8217;s impossible to live in a monastery without developing a sound understanding of obedience. Benedictine Life is a search for God where obedience to God, the Rule of St Benedict and your superior are all of a piece. As you take those first steps on the monastic journey you begin to learn how to distinguish your own will from God&#8217;s will. In fact, you never stop learning this. This learning can only take place if you are prepared to listen deeply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This message in Acts has an uncompromising feel. This verse is of course very easily misused. Many things can be justified as obedience to God or faithfulness to Scripture. How we discern the right path takes us into the realms of conscience and the Church teaching of an informed conscience. This requires a level of maturity in our faith. None of this can be forced.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where in your own life are you conscious of your obedience to God? <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Acts 5:+27-33, Thursday, Second Week of Eastertide)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018OBEDIENCE to God comes before obedience to men; it&nbsp;was the God of our ancestors who raised up Jesus, but it was you who had him executed by hanging on a tree.\u2019 I have lived for more than 30 years in a Benedictine monastery. It&#8217;s impossible to live in a monastery without developing a sound understanding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eastertide Alphabet (O)&#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-5533","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\/5533","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=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5537,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions\/5537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}