{"id":3281,"date":"2024-10-01T18:04:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2024-10-01T18:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:04:56","slug":"hearing-the-call-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2024\/10\/01\/hearing-the-call-2\/uncategorized\/3281\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing the call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/happy-mothers-day-3699995_1920-1024x645-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/happy-mothers-day-3699995_1920-1024x645-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/happy-mothers-day-3699995_1920-1024x645-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/happy-mothers-day-3699995_1920-1024x645-1-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/pixel2013-2364555\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=3699995\">S. Hermann \/ F. Richter<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=3699995\">Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the archives for the feast of St Therese of Lisieux. Today we are celebrating the feast of St Therese of Lisieux. She\u2019s often been presented with an overlay of sentimentality and sweetness that undermines her great spiritual wisdom and insight. She was a women of great faith, courage, determination and discernment. This morning we had a reading from her autobiography, where she describes some of her struggle with vocation and its resolution. Reflecting on St Paul\u2019s first letter to the Corinthians:<br><br><em>\u201cLove, in fact is the vocation which includes all others; it is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space \u2013 its eternal\u2026 My vocation is love\u2026 I had discovered where it is that I belong in the Church, the niche God has appointed for me. To be nothing else than love\u2026 That\u2019s to be everything at once.\u201d<\/em><br><br>Her realisation is the result of a deep and honest personal reflection. To reach it she must have paid attention to her deepest discontent as well as her deepest desires, searching the Scriptures to discover how God was leading her through both to discover and respond to God\u2019s call. To go through that process requires great honesty and courage, it\u2019s something we\u2019re all called to. <br><br>St Therese\u2019s discernment takes us right back to the very heart of our Christian call, the call to love. It\u2019s a call that seems obvious, straightforward and simple. But, as St Therese herself could tell us the ups and downs of life soon shows us that the call to love is also costly, challenging and painful. <br><br>How is God calling you to discover the niche God has appointed for you?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the archives for the feast of St Therese of Lisieux. Today we are celebrating the feast of St Therese of Lisieux. She\u2019s often been presented with an overlay of sentimentality and sweetness that undermines her great spiritual wisdom and insight. She was a women of great faith, courage, determination and discernment. This morning we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[494,544,461,271,335,286,245,246,1],"tags":[28,18,35,253,368,6,8,33,229,13,29,15,260,24,702,10,373],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christ","category-discernment","category-divine-office","category-lectio-divina","category-prayer","category-prophetic-voices","category-saints","category-scripture","category-uncategorized","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-corinthians","tag-desire","tag-doctorofthechurch","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-seekinggod","tag-stpaul","tag-sttherseoflisieux","tag-trust","tag-vocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","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=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}