{"id":3491,"date":"2024-12-22T10:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T10:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2024-12-22T10:37:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T10:37:45","slug":"visited-by-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2024\/12\/22\/visited-by-hope\/benedictine-spirituality\/3491\/","title":{"rendered":"Visited by Hope."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eye-for-ebony-zQQ6Y5_RtHE-unsplash-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eye-for-ebony-zQQ6Y5_RtHE-unsplash-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eye-for-ebony-zQQ6Y5_RtHE-unsplash-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eye-for-ebony-zQQ6Y5_RtHE-unsplash-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eye-for-ebony-zQQ6Y5_RtHE-unsplash-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eye-for-ebony-zQQ6Y5_RtHE-unsplash-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eye-for-ebony-zQQ6Y5_RtHE-unsplash-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eye-for-ebony-zQQ6Y5_RtHE-unsplash-1980x1485.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">eye-for-ebony-zQQ6Y5_RtHE-unsplash-scaled.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s gospel, the visitation, is one of my favourites. I\u2019m always touched by the encounter of these two women as they both face unexpected and uncertain circumstances.  I\u2019m struck by Mary\u2019s courage as newly pregnant she sets out on a dangerous journey to visit her cousin. <br><br>I\u2019m touched by Elizabeth\u2019s wisdom and insight as she faces the fulfilment of a dream she had given up on. They both life in difficult circumstances, their lives limited by the ever present threat of an occupying army. In the midst of so much uncertainty their encounter is a powerful witness to the reality of love, hope and trust. Full of joy and the Holy Spirit Elizabeth cries out:<br><br><em>\u201cBlessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled.\u201d<\/em><br><br>In their challenging, and uncertain circumstances Mary and Elizabeth were able to hold fast to that promise, regardless of appearances to the contrary. We\u2019re living through uncertain times ourselves, more challenging than I\u2019ve ever known or could have imagined. <br><br>We can\u2019t ignore or underestimate the effect that has on us. Yet, like Mary and Elizabeth, even in those circumstance we are called to live with hope and trust. We are called to discover God&#8217;s promise for us today and to trust it will be fulfilled in ways we beyond our imaginings. <br><br>Where are you called to trust in God&#8217;s promise today?<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s gospel, the visitation, is one of my favourites. I\u2019m always touched by the encounter of these two women as they both face unexpected and uncertain circumstances. I\u2019m struck by Mary\u2019s courage as newly pregnant she sets out on a dangerous journey to visit her cousin. I\u2019m touched by Elizabeth\u2019s wisdom and insight as she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,222,494,461,239,271,537,246,385],"tags":[28,269,18,176,6,166,8,130,33,229,13,29,15,7,10,291,174],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-divine-office","category-gospel","category-lectio-divina","category-liturgy","category-scripture","category-visitation","tag-benedictine","tag-blessed","tag-challenge","tag-elizabeth","tag-gospel","tag-holyspirit","tag-hope","tag-joy","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-promise","tag-trust","tag-virginmary","tag-visitation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491","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=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3498,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions\/3498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}