{"id":3885,"date":"2025-05-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2025-05-03T13:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T13:21:27","slug":"renewed-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2025\/05\/04\/renewed-in-love\/uncategorized\/3885\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewed in love."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/hands-4903050_1280-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/hands-4903050_1280-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/hands-4903050_1280-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/hands-4903050_1280-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/hands-4903050_1280-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/hands-4903050_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image by Manuel Dar\u00edo Fuentes Hern\u00e1ndez from pixabay.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I find it really helpful that we hear the Easter gospels repeatedly during Eastertide. They all hold too much wisdom for just one reflection. Today we\u2019re revisiting Jesus\u2019 appearance to the disciples on the beach and I\u2019m reflecting on Jesus\u2019s conversation with Peter. <br><br>It\u2019s the first time they\u2019ve spoken since Peter\u2019s denial of Jesus in Holy Week. I can imagine that Peter felt the full weight of that as he walked along the beach with Jesus after the meal. Jesus doesn\u2019t revisit Peter\u2019s betrayal. He offers him a way forward into renewed and healed relationship. He says to Peter:<br><br><em>\u201cSimon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?\u201d <\/em><br><br>When Peter replies <em>\u201cYes, Lord, you know I love you.\u201d<\/em> Jesus accepts that with no questioning or recrimination based on his earlier betrayal. Instead he offers them a commission:<br><br><em>\u2018Feed my lambs.\u2019<\/em><br><br>Yet he repeats the question twice more until Peter, getting upset, repeats his affirmation again:<br><br><em>\u201cYes, Lord, you know I love you.\u201d<\/em><br><br>We have no idea why Jesus repeats his question, but I assume that it\u2019s to reassure Peter. I can\u2019t imagine that the risen Christ needed the reassurance. Jesus allows Peter the opportunity to reaffirm his love for Jesus three times and then to be commissioned by him three times. <br><br>This doesn\u2019t undo his denial, but it balances it it in a way that I imagine Peter will find helpful to remember in his darker moments. We too need the opportunity to reset &amp; renew our relationship with Christ from time to time. <br><br>As we move through Eastertide where is the risen Christ inviting you to a renewed relationship?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it really helpful that we hear the Easter gospels repeatedly during Eastertide. They all hold too much wisdom for just one reflection. Today we\u2019re revisiting Jesus\u2019 appearance to the disciples on the beach and I\u2019m reflecting on Jesus\u2019s conversation with Peter. It\u2019s the first time they\u2019ve spoken since Peter\u2019s denial of Jesus in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,544,359,239,271,537,245,246,1],"tags":[28,801,18,53,223,125,58,6,8,33,229,13,29,15,59,614,405,10],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-discernment","category-eastertide","category-gospel","category-lectio-divina","category-liturgy","category-saints","category-scripture","category-uncategorized","tag-benedictine","tag-breakfast","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-christlike","tag-eastertide","tag-forgiveness","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-reconciliation","tag-renewal","tag-stpeter","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","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=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}