{"id":3738,"date":"2025-04-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2025-04-02T18:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:17:31","slug":"led-by-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2025\/04\/03\/led-by-the-light\/benedictine-spirituality\/3738\/","title":{"rendered":"Led by the light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The 30 word in my Lent lexicon is: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIGHT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not a word I generally connect with Lent, more often I connect it with Advent or Eastertide. But today this jumped out at me from the gospel:

\u201cJohn was a lamp alight and shining and for a time you were content to enjoy the light that he gave. But my testimony is greater than John\u2019s: the works my Father has given me to carry out, these same works of mine testify that the Father has sent me.\u201d<\/em>

Jesus\u2019 words recall John\u2019s testimony and the light he offered us. It was a good light, necessary and valuable. In our dark times it\u2019s worth remembering that light that shone in our darkness, refusing to be overcome and showing us a way through.

Then Jesus takes us a step further, John\u2019s light was good, he tells us, but I\u2019m offering something more. He calls us to use the light to follow him into new and uncharted territory. The light of Jesus\u2019 testimony will take us beyond what we already know. As we draw closer to Holy Week we have to acknowledge that. Living in our own hard times we are all too aware of the darkness we face and the need for that light.

Through his union with the Father the light Jesus offers us will guide us through all that darkness and lead us towards the new light and life of resurrection. The whole purpose of our Lent journey is to prepare our hearts to welcome that light wholeheartedly. Surely then part of our Lent practice is to seek that light in our lives and to trust us to lead us through Lent and whatever darkness we encounter there.

Where is Christ inviting you to allow his light into your life this Lent?
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The 30 word in my Lent lexicon is: LIGHT. It\u2019s not a word I generally connect with Lent, more often I connect it with Advent or Eastertide. But today this jumped out at me from the gospel: \u201cJohn was a lamp alight and shining and for a time you were content to enjoy the light […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,356,239,400,271,336,246],"tags":[28,18,172,6,8,197,33,229,784,13,5,719,741,29,15,783,10],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-cross","category-gospel","category-john-the-baptist","category-lectio-divina","category-lent","category-scripture","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-father","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-johnthebaptist","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lamp","tag-lectiodivina","tag-light","tag-lightindarkness","tag-lightofchrist","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-testimony","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","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=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3746,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}