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Thursday, 27 March 2025 10:47

Lectio Divina April 2025

 Cover Image: Holy Week in Seville, Spain. Cover Image: Holy Week in Seville, Spain. © V. Rev. William J. Harry, O. Carm.

Opening Prayer

Lord our God,
You have quenched our thirst for life with the water of baptism.
Keep turning the desert of our arid lives into a paradise of joy and peace, that we may bear fruits of holiness, justice, and love.
Lord, hear our prayer through Jesus Christ, 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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