{"id":3231,"date":"2024-08-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:03:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:03:45","slug":"the-gift-of-peace-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2024\/08\/28\/the-gift-of-peace-3\/uncategorized\/3231\/","title":{"rendered":"The hope of peace."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019m reflecting on these words from today\u2019s first reading. In his second letter to the Thessalonians St Paul writes:

\u201cMay the Lord of peace himself give you peace all the time and in every way. The Lord be with you all.\u201d<\/em>

They have particular resonance in the light of today\u2019s news, which gives the impression that there is almost nowhere in the world where peace prevails. In such a challenging scenario it\u2019s tempting to dismiss his words as too idealistic for such troubled times.

But the gospel calls us to hope, not hopelessness. In his own challenging and violent times St Paul was able to write these words of hope and believe in them because of the good news of the gospel.

Today were celebrating the feast of St Augustine of Hippo. His writing was hugely influential in shaping Western Christian thought and theology. He also lived in violent and challenging times as the Roman Empire disintegrated around him.

Like St Paul, St Augustine was able to face his times with courage and hope because of his faith in the gospel and it\u2019s promise. In many ways we face the same dilemma that they did. It\u2019s not easy to be hopeful in our own challenging and violent times.

It\u2019s hard to see people suffer and not be able to fix things. Yet it is in precisely these times that we are called to follow their example, to seek and share the peace of Christ wherever and however we can.

Where are you aware of needing the Lord of peace to bring peace to your life today?
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I\u2019m reflecting on these words from today\u2019s first reading. In his second letter to the Thessalonians St Paul writes: \u201cMay the Lord of peace himself give you peace all the time and in every way. The Lord be with you all.\u201d They have particular resonance in the light of today\u2019s news, which gives the impression […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,271,335,245,246,1],"tags":[28,18,83,6,8,33,229,13,29,15,97,587,7,171,692,24,602,10],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-lectio-divina","category-prayer","category-saints","category-scripture","category-uncategorized","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-faith","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-peace","tag-peacebearers","tag-promise","tag-staugustine","tag-staugustineofhippo","tag-stpaul","tag-thessalonians","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","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=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3239,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}