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Wednesday, 27 March 2024 11:39

Lectio Divina April 2024

Annunciation from 13th century Armenian Gospel. Miniatures Armeniennes, Ayastan, Erevan 1967 Annunciation from 13th century Armenian Gospel. Miniatures Armeniennes, Ayastan, Erevan 1967 Uploader Koperczak (talk) 08:52, 26 March 2009 (UTC), Toros Roslin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Opening Prayer

Our living God,
our heart is glad and rejoices and we feel secure in our faith that we have a living person to believe in, Jesus Christ, who is risen from the dead. Let him show us the path of life, let us live in the joy of his presence and give us the grace to make us witnesses, so that we can proclaim with our whole life that Jesus is our risen, living Lord now and forever.

"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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