{"id":3931,"date":"2025-05-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2025-05-12T21:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:34:04","slug":"welcoming-christ-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2025\/05\/15\/welcoming-christ-2\/benedictine-spirituality\/3931\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Christ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ricky-turner-ms-kaEvbUy0-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ricky-turner-ms-kaEvbUy0-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ricky-turner-ms-kaEvbUy0-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ricky-turner-ms-kaEvbUy0-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ricky-turner-ms-kaEvbUy0-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ricky-turner-ms-kaEvbUy0-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ricky-turner-ms-kaEvbUy0-unsplash-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ricky-turner-ms-kaEvbUy0-unsplash-1980x1320.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Ricky Turner on unsplash.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All through Eastertide the risen Christ invites us to follow him. In his actions and words, he shows us how what that means, how to live as Christians. In today\u2019s gospel he calls us to be open and welcoming:<br><br><em>\u201cI tell you most solemnly, whoever welcomes the one I send welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.\u201d<\/em><br><br>His words are, of course, a call to open our hearts and welcome him into our lives. It\u2019s a call to allow him to allow him to form us in his image. <br><br>But that\u2019s only one part of the call to be welcoming. There\u2019s another aspect to it. He calls us to be open to the circumstances we find ourselves in. He speaks these words at the last supper, already aware that Judas is about to betray him. <br><br>In that painful and frightening situation, he doesn\u2019t run away. Instead, trusting in his Father, he opens himself to welcome this most painful situation, accepting all that it brings. <br><br>He shows us that even in the most challenging, painful and unlikely of circumstances we can open our hearts to Christ.  He challenges us to welcome the painful situations we face. He asks us to welcome him in to even the darkest areas of our lives, and allow him to be there with us. <br><br>There\u2019s also more to it than that. It\u2019s a call to be open to others, to offer them the same welcome and acceptance that we would to Christ. Even, and maybe especially, when we find them challenging. <br><br>Where is the risen Christ inviting you to be open to this Eastertide?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All through Eastertide the risen Christ invites us to follow him. In his actions and words, he shows us how what that means, how to live as Christians. In today\u2019s gospel he calls us to be open and welcoming: \u201cI tell you most solemnly, whoever welcomes the one I send welcomes me, and whoever welcomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,359,239,271,537,335,246],"tags":[28,140,18,53,223,125,204,6,8,110,33,229,13,29,15,10,26],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-eastertide","category-gospel","category-lectio-divina","category-liturgy","category-prayer","category-scripture","tag-benedictine","tag-call","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-christlike","tag-eastertide","tag-follow","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-invitation","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-trust","tag-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","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=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3937,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}