{"id":3214,"date":"2024-08-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2024-08-18T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T09:03:16","slug":"love-in-action-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2024\/08\/19\/love-in-action-2\/benedictine-spirituality\/3214\/","title":{"rendered":"Love in action."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo by Vict\u00f3ria Kubiaki<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Today we\u2019re celebrating feast of St Bernard Tolomei, the founder of the Olivetan congregation. He was a 13th century lawyer who, with a few friends, left the city to live as hermits in the hills outside of Siena.

However, things did not turn out quite as they planned. Having being led out into one of those \u201cdesert places\u201d where God speaks to the heart, they were called back into the city to nurse the victims of the plague in 1349. It was there that St Bernard fell ill and died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflecting on Bernard\u2019s life in the light of that gospel I was touched by this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments and remain in his love.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sums up both the essence of St Bernard\u2019s life and of the call to contemplation that we all experience. The result Bernard\u2019s contemplation was not to cut him off from the world and its sufferings, but to make him more aware of them. This led him back to the city to give his life in serving others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s tempting to make a division between a life of contemplation and one of service. Bernard\u2019s life suggests that there is no such division, they are two parts of a whole. It is our time spent with God that enables and sustains our service to others. It is the love we discover in the heart of God that enables us to love our sisters and brothers.

How is Christ calling you to serve today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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