Dear Lord, thank you for the gift of a new day. May all that I do today be done with love and for your glory. #MorningPrayer

A 🧵on sharing the Good News.1/6 Jesus commissions the 12 Apostles, giving them authority and sending them out to proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom of heaven. He says to them: “Go to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. And as you go, proclaim that the Kingdom of heaven is close at hand.”

#Apostles, #Benedictine, #challenge, #Christ, #Christlike, #Disciples, #Discipleship, #GoodNews, #gospel, #kingdom, #KingdomOfHeaven, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #proclaim, #trust Sharing Good News, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

A 🧵on trusting the promise. 1/6 Today’s readings are full of joy, gratitude and promise. In the first reading Zechariah tells the people of Zion to rejoice because the King who promises peace is coming.

#Benedictine, #challenge, #Gentle, #gospel, #gratitude, #Hope, #humility, #joy, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #labour, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #overburdened, #rest, #trust Trustingthe promise, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

A 🧵for the feast of St Thomas. 1/6 St Thomas is one of my favourite disciples. He is so direct & has the courage to ask awkward questions. I often think that he asked the questions that other people don’t quite have the nerve for. I always feel sorry for him at the beginning of today’s gospel.

#Belief, #Benedictine, #challenge, #courage, #doubt, #faith, #gospel, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #peace, #RisenChrist, #StThomas, #trust Uncertainty and belief, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/2...

A 🧵on choosing life. 1/7 In today’s first reading the prophet Amos echoes Deuteronomy’s call to “choose life” by seeking good and not evil: “Seek good and not evil so that you may live, and that the Lord, God of Hosts, may really be with you as you claim he is.”

#Amos, #Benedictine, #challenge, #Choice, #ChooseLife, #Deuteronomy, #discernment, #gospel, #Hope, #integrity, #Justice, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #trust Justice & integrity, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

A 🧵for St Peter & Paul. 1/6 As we celebrate the feast of Sts Peter and Paul I’m reflecting on courage. There’s no denying that we live in frightening and challenging times. Whatever direction we look in we risk being overwhelmed by the uncertainty and suffering people are forced to live with.

#Benedictine, #challenge, #Christ, #Christlike, #courage, #Discipleship, #freedom, #gospel, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #love, #newlife, #Psalms, #StPaul, #StPeter, #trust New blog post for the feast of Sts Peter & Paul on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

A 🧵on taking up the cross. 1/7 Jesus is brutally honest with his disciples about the cost of following him. It will include suffering, loss, challenge & conflict. Jesus is making it clear to his disciples that following him will not help them to avoid the suffering of life.

#Benedictine, #challenge, #Christ, #Christlike, #Costly, #cross, #disciple, #Discipleship, #Follow, #gospel, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #trust Finding life, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

A 🧵for the birthday of St John the Baptist.1/5 Today we’re celebrating the birthday of St John the Baptist. From his very beginnings John is marginal, he marks the boundaries between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

#Benedictine, #challenge, #gospel, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #listen, #love, #Marginal #Margins, #newlife, #NewTestament, #OldTestament #StJohnTheBaptist #trust #Word Hearing the Word, blog post for the feast of St John the Baptist on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

A 🧵for the feast of Sts John Fisher & Thomas More 1/7. Sts Thomas More &John Fisher lived in times that were brutal and frightening, full of betrayal and mistrust. As they faced their martyrdom the words of today’s gospel must have had a particular resonance for them:

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A gospel 🧵1/7 Today’s gospel addresses a powerful human emotion, fear. It’s something we all have personal experience of in a myriad of different ways. We know how fear can undermine our plans and our lives. We know it’s power to imprison and even destroy.

#Beloved, #Benedictine, #challenge, #Christ, #Christlike, #Disciples, #Discipleship, #Fear, #freedom, #gospel, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #trust Ste free from fear, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/2...

A gospel 🧵1/6 In today’s gospel Jesus warns us against seeking attention and admiration for our faith and our good deeds. It’s a message that very much goes against the wisdom of age, which encourages us to seek notice and attention in every situation.

#Benedictine, #challenge, #Christlike, #discernment, #Discipleship, #Gift, #gospel, #Hope, #humility, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #prayer, #secret, #trust In silence & humility, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

Refugee Week: "We need to challenge narratives that dehumanise" - Pres and VP of @methodist.org.uk Continuing our series of sharing reflections from Member Church leaders, read more from Rev Richard Andrew and Matthew Forsyth www.methodist.org.uk/about/our-st... #RefugeeWeek

A Gospel 🧵 1/5 In today’s gospel Jesus sends out his disciples to proclaim the Good News around the towns and villages. Having given them power to cast out demons and cured the sick he goes on to tell them: “As you go, proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.”

#Benedictine, #challenge, #Christ, #Christlike, #Disciples, #Discipleship, #GoodNews, #gospel, #GospelLiving, #GospelValues, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #trust Recognisingthe Konngdom, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

A 🧵for Sacred Heart. 1/6 Today we are celebrating the feast of the Sacred Heart. It’s a feast that celebrates the love that is the core and foundation of the Christian life. It reminds us that we are called into being by love, for love’s sake, to live in love and to share that love with others.

#Benedictine, #challenge, #Chosen, #Deuteronomy, #feast, #gospel, #Hope, #kindness, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #lovingkindness, #Moses, #newlife, #rest, #sacredheart, #trust New blog post for the feast of Sacred Heart on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

A gospel 🧵1/6 We are fascinated by novelty. There is a particular attraction in something new, something we’ve never come across before. Novelty is often captivating and exciting. Without it so much of human development and flourishing would have been impossible.

#Benedictine, #challenge, #Christ, #Christlike, #gospel, #Heritage, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #Law, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #promise, #Prophets, #Tradition, #trust Treasures new and old, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

Monday, Week 10 in Ordinary Time Gospel:

"The Kingdom He proclaimed is not bound to one ethnicity, one culture, one language, or one nation" ~ Min @shermarafh.bsky.social Kingdom over Nation's Executive Editor introduces this new #ecumenical resource for churches at a time of political polarisation cte.org.uk/introducing-...

A Corpus Christi 🧵1/6 Corpus Christi being celebrated on two different days gives me another opportunity to revisit its rich readings. “Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.” His words are full of hope, speaking to the unity we all desire.

#Benedictine, #challenge, #Christ, #Church, #Communion, #community, #CorpusChristi, #gospel, #Hope, #Hosea, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #trust, #unity A call to love, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

A 🧵for Corpus Christi. 1/6 As we celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi I’m reflecting on the nature of Eucharist. The Scripture that comes to mind is the Emmaus story. Although it’s not part of the feast’s liturgy it seems to me to capture something of its essence.

#Benedictine, #BodyAndBloodOfChrist, #challenge, #Communion, #community, #CorpusChristi, #Eucharist, #gospel, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #RecognisingChrist, #Recognition, #trust Blog post for Corpus Christi on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/2...

From the Faith & Science Resource Center: An interview with Vatican Observatory Adjunct Scholar Fr. Adam Hincks.

A gospel 🧵1/6 Today’s gospel finds Jesus disputing with the Sadducees. They come to him with a series of hard questions, hoping to trap him into speaking out against the Law. Jesus knows what they are up to and takes the conversation beyond those arguments to a new level.

#Benedictine, #burningbush, #challenge, #ChooseLife, #Christ, #Christlike, #Discipleship, #gospel, #Hope, #Jesus, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #trust Into the unknown, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

O Lord, grant us a quiet night and a peaceful end. #Compline

A 🧵for Trinity Sunday. 1/6 I’m drawn to this from St Paul’s letter to the Romans: “Our sufferings bring patience, as we know, & patience brings perseverance, & perseverance brings hope, ..."

#challenge, #Christ, #Christlike, #Discipleship, #FatherSonSpirit, #HolySpirit, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #Romans, #StPaul, #transform, #TrinitySunday, #trust New blog post for Trinity Sunday on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

A🧵for the feast of St Augustine. 1/6 Today we’re celebrating the feast of St Augustine of Canterbury who, somewhat reluctantly, was sent by St Gregory the Great to bring the Gospel to the English.

#Benedictine, #challenge, #Disciples#Discipleship, #gospel, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #newlife, #Risk, #StAugustine, #StAugustineOfCanterbury, #StGregoryTheGreat, #trust, #Vulnerability With empty hands & open hearts, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

An Eastertide 🧵1/7 My final Eastertide word is ABUNDANCE. All of Eastertide expresses the overflowing abundance of God’s love for us. That’s especially true as we celebrate the ABUNDANCE of gifts the Holy Spirit showers on us at Pentecost. Image ©Turvey Abbey

#Abundance, #Benedictine, #challenge, #Eastertide2026, #GiftsOfTheSpirit, #HolySpirit, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #Pentecost, #trust Pentecost...the abundant gifts of the Sp[irit. New blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?... Image ©Turvey Abbey

An Eastertide 🧵1/6 Today’s Eastertide word is ATTENTIVENESS. Today’s gospel covers the very end of Jesus’ conversation with Peter. Once again I find myself touched by Peter’s bluntness.

#attentiveness, #Benedictine, #challenge, #Christ, #Christlike, #eastertide, #gospel, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #listen, #love, #newlife, #Pentecost, #SimonPeter, #trust Attentive to Christ's call, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

An Eastertide 🧵1/7 Today’s Eastertide word is SURRENDER. The call to SURRENDER ourselves to Christ is the challenge and hope at the heart of today’s gospel. It revisits Peter’s conversation with Jesus on the beach after the resurrection after Peter has had a long and frustrating night’s fishing.

#Benedictine, #challenge, #commitment, #eastertide, #Eastertide2026, #gospel, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #newlife, #Pentecost, #SimonPeter, #StPeter, #surrender Surrenering to Chjrist, new blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...

An Eastertide 🧵1/6 Today’s Eastertide word is KNOW. The farewell discourse in John’s gospel are full of riches as Jesus prepares his disciples for his departure he seems he does everything he can to make himself known to them in the fullest possible way:

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