Lectio Divina is an ancient Latin expression meaning “Sacred Reading”. It is a method of meditative reading which goes back to the 5th Century of our church.
It is done in three stages –
1. A slow contemplative praying of the Scripture,
2. a period of meditation which leads to
3. Prayer.
Many people read the text to get the message it contains and once they get the message the text has achieved its purpose. In Lectio Divina, the text speaks to the imagination. We recognize our lives and the lives of others. Each one of us is a story of grace but also a story of sin. We recognize ourselves in the great men and women of the Bible but we also recognize ourselves in the bad characters and find that we want to give up these attitudes. This leads us to prayers of thanksgiving, repentance and petition.
Lectio Divina is taught and practiced with the Church’s Sunday Lectionary. We begin to read the Sunday Gospel text from the Monday before. By the time we hear the Gospel on a Sunday; we have already read the text many times during the preceding week so that the Gospel has become part of us. It has become a means of union with God.
It is best practiced in the presence of others where we experience ourselves in communion with all humanity. We dialogue between the written Word and our experience. It becomes the Word of God spoken to us today. Everyone, catechists, Retired Persons, Interested persons, young persons.. Not so young persons.. You are all invited and welcome to spend some time with the Scripture and each other from Thursday 18th February 2010 at 10.30a.m. Bring your Bible..and come!!
Lectio Divina is an ancient Latin expression meaning “Sacred
Reading”. It is a method of meditative reading which goes back to
the 5th Century of our church.
It is done in three stages –
1. A slow contemplative praying of the Scripture,
2. a period of meditation which leads to
3. Prayer.
Many people read the text to get the message it contains and once
they get the message the text has achieved its purpose. In Lectio
Divina, the text speaks to the imagination. We recognize our lives
and the lives of others. Each one of us is a story of grace but also a
story of sin. We recognize ourselves in the great men and women
of the Bible but we also recognize ourselves in the bad characters
and find that we want to give up these attitudes. This leads us to
prayers of thanksgiving, repentance and petition.
Lectio Divina is taught and practiced with the Church’s Sunday
Lectionary. We begin to read the Sunday Gospel text from the
Monday before. By the time we hear the Gospel on a Sunday; we
have already read the text many times during the preceding week
so that the Gospel has become part of us. It has become a means of
union with God.
It is best practiced in the presence of others where we experience
ourselves in communion with all humanity. We dialogue between
the written Word and our experience. It becomes the Word of God
spoken to us today.
Everyone, catechists, Retired Persons, Interested persons, young
persons.. Not so young persons.. You are all invited and welcome
to spend some time with the Scripture and each other from Thursday
18th February 2010 at 10.30a.m. Bring your Bible..and come!!