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Tuesday, 27 February 2024 15:01

Lectio Divina March 2024

Jesus in the workshop of Joseph the Carpenter, by Georges de La Tour, 1640s Jesus in the workshop of Joseph the Carpenter, by Georges de La Tour, 1640s Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Opening Prayer

God, we do not want to die; we want to live.
We want to be happy but without paying the price. We belong to our times, when sacrifice and suffering are out of fashion. God, make our life worth living.
Give us back the age-old realization, that life means to be born again and again in pain, that it may become again a journey of hope to You, together with Christ Jesus, our Lord.

"Lectio divina," a Latin term, means "divine reading" and describes a way of reading the Scriptures whereby we gradually let go of our own agenda and open ourselves to what God wants to say to us. In the 12th century, a Carthusian monk called Guigo, described the stages which he saw as essential to the practice of Lectio divina. There are various ways of practicing Lectio divina either individually or in groups but Guigo's description remains fundamental.

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