{"id":4603,"date":"2026-04-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:14:58","slug":"being-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2026\/04\/03\/being-there\/benedictine-spirituality\/4603\/","title":{"rendered":"Being There."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/painting-bm-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/painting-bm-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/painting-bm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/painting-bm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/painting-bm-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/painting-bm.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image \u00a9 Ally Barrett (www.reverendally.org) and used by permission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">BACKGROUND READING MARK 15:1-41 AND <br>JOHN 19 17-37 OR JUST JOHN 19 17-37<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salome was one of women who followed Jesus through his passion and death to his resurrection.<br><br>Salome\u2019s story is about remembering and forgetting. She remembers her friendship with Mary growing up in Nazareth. She remembers it falling apart after the angel\u2019s visit, and being rediscovered after Mary, Joseph and Jesus returned from Egypt. She remembers how she initially followed Jesus for Mary\u2019s sake, until his words touched her and she begins to follow for herself.<br><br>She remembers how, when they hear of Jesus\u2019 arrest, they follow him to his trial and passion. She tells us that, with breaking hearts and dying hopes, they keep vigil at the cross while he dies.<br><br>Salome also knows what it feels like to be forgotten. She repeatedly reminds Peter and the other disciples that not all of Jesus\u2019 followers ran away at his arrest. She admits that this might have been habit as much as virtue:<br><br><em>\u201cIt\u2019s what I\u2019ve always done. When disaster strikes and I don\u2019t know what to do, I do what I normally do \u2013 day in, day out \u2013 until the moment comes when I do know what to do again. So, when we heard, when it felt as though the world was collapsing around us, we did what we\u2019d been doing for the past few years. We followed him.\u201d<\/em><br><br>When we come to the cross on Good Friday we are invited to remember the marginal. We are called to stand with those society rejects, ignores, and pushes aside. We are challenged to become one with them in Christ. <br><br>The cross also invites us to bring those parts of ourselves that we reject and ignore. We are called to bring them to the cross, to be welcomed into Jesus\u2019 gaze of \u201cpure love\u201d.<br><br>As you stand before the cross this Good Friday where do you need to feel the pure love of Christ your life?<br>You can hear Salome&#8217;s story here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-wp-embed is-provider-captivate-fm wp-block-embed-captivate-fm\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"The Sixth Woman: Salome&#039;s Story\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/02a688a1-48f0-488b-8669-37705d0a05d2\/#?secret=3kaJx0gwlO\" data-secret=\"3kaJx0gwlO\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACKGROUND READING MARK 15:1-41 AND JOHN 19 17-37 OR JUST JOHN 19 17-37 Salome was one of women who followed Jesus through his passion and death to his resurrection. Salome\u2019s story is about remembering and forgetting. She remembers her friendship with Mary growing up in Nazareth. She remembers it falling apart after the angel\u2019s visit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,356,461,355,239,345,271,336,537,246,351],"tags":[28,18,53,223,698,6,101,8,326,33,229,13,41,29,252,778,105,10],"class_list":["post-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-cross","category-divine-office","category-good-friday","category-gospel","category-holy-week","category-lectio-divina","category-lent","category-liturgy","category-scripture","category-triduum","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-christlike","tag-follower","tag-gospel","tag-holyweek","tag-hope","tag-jesus","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-lent","tag-love","tag-passion","tag-remember","tag-triduum","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603","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=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}