{"id":4010,"date":"2025-06-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2025-06-04T17:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:58:06","slug":"held-in-the-heart-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2025\/06\/05\/held-in-the-heart-of-christ\/benedictine-spirituality\/4010\/","title":{"rendered":"Held in the heart of Christ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The farewell discourse in John\u2019s gospel are full of riches as Jesus prepares his disciples for his departure. Today I\u2019m reflecting on these words:

\u201cI have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.\u201d<\/em>

They take me back to the heart of our Christian call, to dwell in the love of Christ. It\u2019s a call to intimacy and to openness. At heart it\u2019s a call to allow Christ to love us, to be aware of that love in our lives and to relish it. On the surface that can seem obvious, of course we \u201cknow\u201d we are held in the heart of Christ\u2019s love.

In practice the knocks and bumps of daily life very quickly overshadowed that deep reality. Then we forget it, and that leaves us feeling far from Christ and his love. It can leave us feeling frustrated, isolated and unloved. It\u2019s so tempting to give into those feelings especially when life is hard and uncertain.

This is one of the reasons I think we cannot hear these words of Jesus, reminding us of how he loves us, often enough. In these hard, frightening and challenging times we need actively put ourselves in the way of hearing that message as often as possible.

We need to find ways of allowing it to sink into our hearts. We need to let it put down roots and to grow within us so that it becomes impossible for us to forget it, whatever challenges we face in our daily lives.

Where is Christ inviting you to allow his love to shape and transform your life this Eastertide?
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The farewell discourse in John\u2019s gospel are full of riches as Jesus prepares his disciples for his departure. Today I\u2019m reflecting on these words: \u201cI have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,544,359,239,388,271,537,362,246],"tags":[28,18,53,223,203,448,125,6,8,326,33,229,13,29,15,182,10],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-discernment","category-eastertide","category-gospel","category-holy-spirit","category-lectio-divina","category-liturgy","category-resurrection","category-scripture","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-christlike","tag-disciple","tag-discipleship","tag-eastertide","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-jesus","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-sacredheart","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","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=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}