{"id":3964,"date":"2025-05-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2025-05-22T18:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:06:29","slug":"chosen-to-bear-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2025\/05\/23\/chosen-to-bear-fruit\/benedictine-spirituality\/3964\/","title":{"rendered":"Chosen to bear fruit."},"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\/2025\/03\/elena-mozhvilo-IvM3xXl4HGk-unsplash-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elena-mozhvilo-IvM3xXl4HGk-unsplash-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elena-mozhvilo-IvM3xXl4HGk-unsplash-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elena-mozhvilo-IvM3xXl4HGk-unsplash-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elena-mozhvilo-IvM3xXl4HGk-unsplash-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elena-mozhvilo-IvM3xXl4HGk-unsplash-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elena-mozhvilo-IvM3xXl4HGk-unsplash-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elena-mozhvilo-IvM3xXl4HGk-unsplash-1980x1316.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash.com <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cYou did not choose me: no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last\u2026\u201d<\/em><br><br>We live surrounded by choices that often require a lot of time, thought and effort. This can give us a sense of control, but if I\u2019m honest it can also feel overwhelming and limiting. As is so often the case Jesus\u2019 words draw me to a deeper reality that is both truer and more liberating. Going to the heart of our Christian vocation they recall the words of psalmist quoted by St Benedict:<br><br><em>\u201cIs there anyone here who yearns for life and desires to see good days?\u201d<br><\/em><br>I find these gospel words both hopeful and humbling. They remind me that my role is to listen and respond. They call me back to humility, telling me that control is not in my hands, but in the hands of Christ. They fill me with hope as they tell me I am already chosen, Christ has already chosen me, and each one of us, and is waiting with love for us to respond to his call to life.<br><br>How are you listening and responding to the call of Christ in your life today?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou did not choose me: no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last\u2026\u201d We live surrounded by choices that often require a lot of time, thought and effort. This can give us a sense of control, but if I\u2019m honest it can also feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,359,239,271,537,362,492,246],"tags":[28,18,43,376,448,125,67,6,8,33,229,13,44,29,15,215,10],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-eastertide","category-gospel","category-lectio-divina","category-liturgy","category-resurrection","category-rule-of-st-benedict","category-scripture","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-choose","tag-disciples","tag-discipleship","tag-eastertide","tag-fruit","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-life","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-ruleofstbenedict","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","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=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3968,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions\/3968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}