{"id":3752,"date":"2025-04-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2025-04-06T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:12:11","slug":"beginning-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2025\/04\/06\/beginning-again\/benedictine-spirituality\/3752\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning again."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The 33 word in my Lent lexicon is: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A NEW BEGINNING. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some ways way could describe all of Lent as a new beginning. It\u2019s what we\u2019re offered first on Ash Wednesday as we\u2019re invited to turn back to the gospel and to begin to live it more faithfully. That offer is repeated throughout Lent as we follow Jesus on his journey towards his passion and ultimately Resurrection.

Today\u2019s readings touch on this theme of new beginnings. In the first reading Isaiah promise that the Lord is about to do \u201ca new deed\u201d creating a new way through the wilderness where God\u2019s people can both travel and live safely.

In the gospel, the woman taken in adultery is offered a new beginning by Jesus in what initially seemed like the most unlikely of circumstances. Having challenged and seen off her accusers Jesus says to her:

\u201cNeither do I condemn you\u2026go away, and do not sin any more.\u201d<\/em>

While his words offer her a hope that must have seemed unimaginable a few minutes before. Yet the offer also carries a challenge, as Chaim Potok points out \u201call beginnings are hard.\u201d<\/em>

Whether we\u2019re faced with a small beginning or a major one like this unnamed woman it\u2019s never easy to begin again. We can\u2019t accept the offer of a new beginning unless we let go of our sin, however safe and familiar it feels, and to step out into the unknown. As we start the 5th week of Lent we too are invited to risk embracing a new beginning in our lives.

Where is Christ challenging you walk away from your sin and make a new beginning this Lent?
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The 33 word in my Lent lexicon is: A NEW BEGINNING. In some ways way could describe all of Lent as a new beginning. It\u2019s what we\u2019re offered first on Ash Wednesday as we\u2019re invited to turn back to the gospel and to begin to live it more faithfully. That offer is repeated throughout Lent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,239,271,336,246],"tags":[566,28,18,53,223,58,6,8,33,229,13,41,770,767,29,15,10],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-gospel","category-lectio-divina","category-lent","category-scripture","tag-beginnings","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-christlike","tag-forgiveness","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-lent","tag-lent2025","tag-lentpractices","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","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=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3761,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}