{"id":4831,"date":"2026-06-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2026-06-06T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:46:40","slug":"united-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2026\/06\/07\/united-in-love\/benedictine-spirituality\/4831\/","title":{"rendered":"United in love."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Corpus Christi being celebrated on two different days gives me another opportunity to revisit its rich readings.

\u201cBecause there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.\u201d<\/em>

His words are full of hope, speaking to the unity we all desire. It\u2019s a unity that has two dimensions. There is the personal union with Christ that we are all called to, but desirable as that is it is not enough. So alongside that there is a call to unity with our sisters and brothers.

The call to follow Christ, while it is deeply personal, is not individual. It\u2019s a call to community. As Benedict reminds us we go to Christ \u201caltogether\u201d.

In a world where we are all too aware of our disagreements and divisions, both in society and in the church,St Paul\u2019s words can seem impossibly idealistic. When we look at the divisions between our churches his vision can seem like an unachievable dream.

With this in mind I turned to the readings for the 10 Sunday of ordinary time. I found that they laid out a pathway to the unity St Paul speaks of. In the first reading the Prophet Hosea reminds the people that God calls them to be people of love:

\u201cWhat I want is love, not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not holocausts.\u201d<\/em>

This gives me a deeper understanding the unity at the heart of Corpus Christi. It is first a call to build a community of love that is inclusive and welcoming to all who seek God.

As we celebrate Corpus Christi how are you being called to help build the church into a community of love?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Corpus Christi being celebrated on two different days gives me another opportunity to revisit its rich readings. \u201cBecause there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.\u201d His words are full of hope, speaking to the unity we all desire. It\u2019s a unity that has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,395,394,393,239,271,537,335,286,246],"tags":[28,18,53,144,937,124,397,6,8,408,33,229,13,29,15,10,163],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-communion","category-corpus-christi","category-eucharist","category-gospel","category-lectio-divina","category-liturgy","category-prayer","category-prophetic-voices","category-scripture","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-church","tag-communion","tag-community","tag-corpuschristi","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-hosea","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-trust","tag-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831","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=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}