Lectio Divina: A Beginner’s Guide
I’ve always wanted to be a “good” Christian. I’ve read stacks of books about God and the Christian life, but I only occasionally felt closer…
I’ve always wanted to be a “good” Christian. I’ve read stacks of books about God and the Christian life, but I only occasionally felt closer…
I like to talk. My idea of a good night with friends is lounging in one of our living rooms with a glass of wine…
Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is one of my favorite books; “The Grand Inquisitor,” my favorite chapter. In it, Dostoyevsky masterfully crafts a parable that would…
I feel sorry for priests. Every Sunday they are required to get up in front of a crowd and preach, whether they’re good at it…
#302 – What is Lectio Divina? Recorded live on location at the 2011 National Catholic Youth Conf. in Indianapolis. Church Search in person! Fr. Dave…
As I sit before the illustration accompanying the story of creation in The Saint John’s Bible, I see representations that are obvious — the seven days; Adam, Eve and the serpent; land and sea. And I see many that are less so — little gold boxes, a bird. My mind plays at filling in the gaps. The person next to me is doing the same. After a few minutes, we turn to each other and share what we saw. Within moments, this sharing has turned into an excited discussion of the creation stories and the symbolism involved, referencing back to the illustration again and again. In the final phase of the exercise, our facilitator calls on people and we hear all the things they saw and how they interpreted them — some quite surprising. Now, this is fun bible study.
“Lectio” is the Latin word for reading. In Catholic language a lector is a reader and a lectionary is the book of scripture readings. So…