{"id":4004,"date":"2025-06-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2025-06-02T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:20:45","slug":"discovering-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2025\/06\/03\/discovering-glory\/benedictine-spirituality\/4004\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Glory."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Beginning with Jesus\u2019 prayer for his disciples the word \u201cglorify\u201d repeats again and again throughout today\u2019s gospel:

\u201cJesus said: \u2018Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son so that your son may glorify you; and, through the power over all humankind that you have given him, let him give eternal life to all those you have entrusted to him.\u2019\u201d<\/em>

In an age that sees itself as egalitarian his words seem baffling or even downright uncomfortable. We\u2019ve seen too many misinterpretations of glorification to be comfortable with it. But John\u2019s Gospel is not speaking of the human glory that we\u2019ve seen misused and abused in so many areas.

The glory of the gospel is discovering the reality of divine presence in the midst of ordinary life. We\u2019ve seen that unfold in Jesus\u2019 in miracles and life transforming encounters. Now Jesus is preparing his disciples for his departure and the coming of the Spirit. His prayer for them is that the presence of God will continue to break through into their lives.

That presence won\u2019t remove the challenges, difficulties and dangers they face. Instead the presence of God with them will transform them, giving them courage to move forward in hope and trust. In our own challenging and uncertain times that presence still has the power to break through and transform our lives.

It is unlikely (though not impossible) that we will see it in grand gestures and actions. It\u2019s more likely to be apparent in glimpses and glimmers in the midst of the most ordinary and mundane activities of life. If we are attentive and alert it will come to us in the most unlikely of circumstances.

Where is God calling you to be attentive to the presence of God\u2019s glory in your life?
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Beginning with Jesus\u2019 prayer for his disciples the word \u201cglorify\u201d repeats again and again throughout today\u2019s gospel: \u201cJesus said: \u2018Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son so that your son may glorify you; and, through the power over all humankind that you have given him, let him give eternal life to all those you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,461,359,239,271,362,492,246],"tags":[28,18,53,223,376,448,125,172,517,811,6,8,33,229,13,29,15,10],"class_list":["post-4004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-divine-office","category-eastertide","category-gospel","category-lectio-divina","category-resurrection","category-rule-of-st-benedict","category-scripture","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-christlike","tag-disciples","tag-discipleship","tag-eastertide","tag-father","tag-glory","tag-gloryofgod","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004","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=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}