{"id":5043,"date":"2026-11-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2026-11-04T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:16:26","slug":"dedicated-to-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2026\/11\/05\/dedicated-to-christ\/benedictine-spirituality\/5043\/","title":{"rendered":"Dedicated to Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kelly-sikkema-E8H76nY1v6Q-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kelly-sikkema-E8H76nY1v6Q-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kelly-sikkema-E8H76nY1v6Q-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kelly-sikkema-E8H76nY1v6Q-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kelly-sikkema-E8H76nY1v6Q-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kelly-sikkema-E8H76nY1v6Q-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kelly-sikkema-E8H76nY1v6Q-unsplash-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kelly-sikkema-E8H76nY1v6Q-unsplash-1980x1320.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we\u2019re celebrating the feast of the Dedication of our Oratory. It\u2019s a feast that call us back to reflect of the core of our faith and our monastic life. Every year it seems to offer me something from the core of our faith to reflect on. This year I\u2019m reflecting on the gospel\u2019s call to forgiveness:<br><br>It\u2019s a call that\u2019s full of challenge and that has to be at the heart of any life that involves human relationship. It\u2019s impossible for us to be in relationship with one another without discovering both our need to forgive and to be forgiven. That makes the call to forgive one of the most essential and practical ones we need to respond to. <br><br>It\u2019s not an easy call. To forgive we have to both acknowledge the pain of our hurt, and be willing to put it aside.  It can be tempting to refuse forgiveness, it gives us a superficial feeling of control when we are vulnerable and brought low. <br><br>Forgiveness asks more of us than that. It doesn\u2019t remove the pain we experience. It asks us to acknowledge the pain, and still risk to risk trying again. That leaves us exposed to the risk of more hurt. <br><br>Yet to refuse forgiveness imprisons us and ties us to the past. If we want to build the Kingdom together our only hope is to embrace this challenging and risky call as much as we can.<br><br>Where are you being called to consider forgiveness today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u2019re celebrating the feast of the Dedication of our Oratory. It\u2019s a feast that call us back to reflect of the core of our faith and our monastic life. Every year it seems to offer me something from the core of our faith to reflect on. This year I\u2019m reflecting on the gospel\u2019s call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,494,544,461,239,271,537,335,246],"tags":[963,28,18,53,223,21,448,58,6,8,33,229,13,29,15,964,10],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-christ","category-discernment","category-divine-office","category-gospel","category-lectio-divina","category-liturgy","category-prayer","category-scripture","tag-altar","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-christ","tag-christlike","tag-compassion","tag-discipleship","tag-forgiveness","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-offering","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043","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=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5047,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions\/5047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}