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Lectio divina is a way of praying by sustained immersion into a revelatory text. While Scripture is the classic place of encounter with God, the text could also be the book of life or the book of nature.InLectio Matters, respected spiritual guide Meg Funk accompanies the reader in exploring the various levels of lectio divina as taught by the ancient church writers and by sharing her own long experience. By means of this wisdom both ancient and new, lectio divina can become our burning bush, a real encounter with the living God, in which we take off our sandals and bow our brow to the ground.
Series: The Matters Series
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Liturgical Press; Revised edition (February 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0814635059
ISBN-13: 978-0814635056
Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 0.6 x 6.9 inches
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Lectio is an ancient way (method) of praying the Scripture and also praying about personal experience. It's about your life and God speaking to your life in the text or in the experience. Lectio engages the reader with all the dimensions of a text: literal meaning, symbolic meaning,moral meaning and allows God to speak as we quietly listen(sometimes called the mystical dimension). The text chosen by the reader has a power which helps a person to listen and respond to God's voice within the text as it relates to the study, meditation, and life of the reader.It requires quiet,time and a prayerful attitude.Sister Mary Margaret's book is excellent. Besides describing the process, it combines Sister's personal life and everyday practice with the history and the theory of Lectio. Her choice of a text for this book is the Book of Jonah.Sister suggests "sustained lectio." Often Lectio is seen as taking a text, meditating on it, praying about it and moving on to the next text. Her suggestion is that the reader take a text that they are attracted to for some reason and stay with the text for a longer period of days,weeks and maybe even months. The lectio she proposes also expands into art,music,talking with others about the text and many more opportunities to deepen the text.This idea has helped me in my personal life and in my ministry of preaching and teaching. As I have reflected on it, it is somewhat arrogant to believe that one can sit down with a text and exhaust it in five minutes or a half hour. At the time I read the book, I was considering Romans 8, a rather complex chapter and one that I was not particularly fond of for a variety of reasons.
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