{"id":2914,"date":"2024-03-27T10:28:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T10:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2024-03-27T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:02:50","slug":"the-tree-of-life-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2024\/03\/27\/the-tree-of-life-3\/uncategorized\/2914\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree of Life."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video alignwide\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls poster=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tree-of-Life.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-Tree-of-Life.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some thoughts for Holy Week from the archives&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cAnd stretching out his arms on Calvary,<br>Draw all the ages to him on the Tree.\u201d<\/em><br><br>One of the things that holds the themes of Holy Week together for me is our Lauds hymn. Each day it its own verse that reflects a particular aspect of the Salvation narrative that we\u2019re celebrating through this great and challenging week.<br><br>These are combined with a refrain that\u2019s repeated each day, linking the themes and drawing them together across the days.<br><br>Today\u2019s theme is the tree of life. It links the tree of life in the garden of Eden with the cross. It reminds me that death and life are linked, that by drawing us to himself on the cross Jesus draws us into the light of new life.<br><br>Where do you feel Christ drawing you to himself this Holy Week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts for Holy Week from the archives&#8230; \u201cAnd stretching out his arms on Calvary,Draw all the ages to him on the Tree.\u201d One of the things that holds the themes of Holy Week together for me is our Lauds hymn. Each day it its own verse that reflects a particular aspect of the Salvation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,356,461,239,345,336,537,246,1],"tags":[28,18,53,63,6,101,8,326,33,229,13,41,29,429,516,10],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-cross","category-divine-office","category-gospel","category-holy-week","category-lent","category-liturgy","category-scripture","category-uncategorized","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-cross","tag-gospel","tag-holyweek","tag-hope","tag-jesus","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-lent","tag-love","tag-salvation","tag-treeoflife","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}