{"id":3224,"date":"2024-08-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2024-08-23T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T15:20:18","slug":"walking-with-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2024\/08\/25\/walking-with-christ\/uncategorized\/3224\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking with Christ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/footprints-473978_1920-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/footprints-473978_1920-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/footprints-473978_1920-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/footprints-473978_1920-1024x576-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image by BnB from pixabay.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We can easily forget or brush aside the real challenge at the heart of the gospel. Centuries of familiarity and tradition have removed most of the shock that Jesus\u2019 first followers would have felt when they heard his words. Today\u2019s gospel brings us back to just how shocking his teaching was, and still is if we allow ourselves to really hear it. In today\u2019s gospel Jesus has challenged his listeners so much that they say to themselves:<br><br><em>\u201cThis is intolerable language. How could anyone accept it?\u201d<\/em><br><br>At that point many of them left and stopped following him. Faced with their departure Jesus does nothing to tone his message down. In his conversation with his disciples he even seems to increase the challenge asking them:<br><br><em>\u201cWhat about you, do you want to go away too?\u201d<\/em><br><br>He gives the Twelve complete freedom to walk away like the others. Having learned something of his teaching, each of them has to face and answer his question for themselves. It\u2019s the same question that each of us has to face and answer.<br><br>Simon Peter\u2019s answer sums up the situation for all of us. Turning the question round he says:<br><br><em>\u201cLord, who shall we go to? You have the message of eternal life, and we believe, we know you are the Holy One of God.\u201d<\/em><br><br>His response brings us to the heart of our faith. Once we\u2019ve recognised Jesus as the \u201choly one of God\u201d however challenging it is to walk with him it becomes inconceivable to walk away from him.<br><br>What helps you to stay with Christ even in the challenging times of life?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can easily forget or brush aside the real challenge at the heart of the gospel. Centuries of familiarity and tradition have removed most of the shock that Jesus\u2019 first followers would have felt when they heard his words. Today\u2019s gospel brings us back to just how shocking his teaching was, and still is if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,461,239,271,246,1],"tags":[28,18,53,223,690,204,6,691,8,326,33,229,13,29,15,248,10],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-divine-office","category-gospel","category-lectio-divina","category-scripture","category-uncategorized","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-christlike","tag-eternallife","tag-follow","tag-gospel","tag-holyone","tag-hope","tag-jesus","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-scripture","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","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=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}