We started to think of the body and the soul is like different things. And there’s an incredible stillness that God wants to bring us to, which is really at the heart of prayer. Lectio Divina for the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time We begin our prayer: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. So Lectio with Meditatio, then I like to go back to the Lectio step. Good morning everyone, Today, Jesus speaks with us about the attitude that we should have when we open our hearts in prayer. And what, like, why are you showing me these words? I’m excited to be with you for this Pray More Novenas Advent Retreat. Almighty ever-living God, who in the abundance of your kindness surpass the merits and the desires of those who entreat you, pour out your mercy upon us to pardon what conscience dreads The more time we spend together the more we start looking alike. (Ps 145:8-9) Lectio Divina Wednesday, September 2, 2020 So contemplatio, getting to that place of rest where we can just be with the Lord and let Him be with us. And He’s not some of this like distant impersonal world force, that’s just out there somewhere. And you first step one, you Lectio, you read. And so much like any personal and intimate relationship there’s kind of a way you go about relating to that person, right? Lectio Divina Today podcast on demand - Lectio Divina, or Divine Reading, is a traditional monastic practice for experiencing scripture as a "Living Word" to connect with and deepen our relationship with the Divine. And some people use five parts, some people talk about three parts, but it’s all these structures and models for kind of praying with scripture. Twenty- Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Twenty- Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Twenty- Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Twenty- Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Twenty- Eighth Week in … Don’t miss the rest of the talks! Thursday, December 31, 2020. RECOMMENDED Lectio Divina Readings for 2020. And that’s kind of why, like there’s a lot of great things that we could read in prayer but really praying with scripture is an irreplaceable part of the spiritual life, I think. It is challenging for us to keep our faith when trials, persecution, and all kind of difficulties come into our life. Or it’s like, “I pray a couple of minutes before I go to bed. And often, like all that God wants to do is He wants to look at us and let us look at Him and spend time actually resting. The traditional monastic practice of Lectio Divina is a good way to help us deal with stress and provide a way to enter into sacred Scripture as a living word for our time. His tenderness embraces all His creatures. It’s like the whole idea of the Christian life is that God is, has been He’s become close, is the whole idea of Advent, right? Like you sit down and if you’re just kind of like my wife and I are, just kind of walking past each other in the house and doing chores and watching the kids and we’re not ever really connecting or talking we wouldn’t get to the end of that day and be like, “Yeah, we really connected today. Monday, March 2, 2020 Lectio Divina: Matthew 6:7-15 Tuesday, March 3, 2020 Lectio Divina: Luke 11:29-32 Wednesday, March 4, 2020 Lectio Divina: Matthew 7:7-12 Thursday, March 5, 2020 Lectio Divina: Matthew 5,20-26 Friday, March 6, 2020 Lectio Divina: Matthew 5:43-48 Saturday, March 7, 2020 Lectio Divina: 2nd Sunday of Lent (A) Sunday, March 8, 2020 We live in this, like this busy world where everything’s just like achievement and busy-ness and doing and striving and trying. Lectio Divina. Register for the Pray More Retreat! These three fundamental elements of the charism are not distinct and unrelated values, but closely interwoven. Quaresma 2020 (Catalan Edition) So that we start to look more like Him. “All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”– 2 Tim. So that’s, I’m going to give you a four-part process for praying with scripture called that Lectio Divina. Lectio Divina for the Solemnity of All Saints We begin our prayer: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Your email address will never be shared with any 3rd parties and you will receive only the type of content for which you signed up. At the same is true of prayer. So, thanks so much for watching my talk, and may God bless you richly this advent season, God bless. The Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. So that transformation of life slowly starts taking place, right? All of these we live under the protection, inspiration and guidance of Mary, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, whom we honor as "our Mother and sister. Like they’re distinguished only conceptually but in reality, like the soul is the form of the body. Which is, what I like to know, think about meditatio, meditation you can think of there, it’s discursive, it’s a movement of the inactive movement of the intellect and the will to start to like wrestle with the words of scripture. But family prayer was very much so, there are a lot of the devotional books around the house. And they are, like they’re conceptually distinct for sure but here on earth and particularly right until our death like our bodies and our souls are very much so united. Lectio Divina of the Gospels for the Liturgical Year, 2020-2021 takes the reader through the traditional process of lectio divina, with reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation, focused on the Sunday gospel reading. ", Copyright © 2003 - 2020 THE ORDER OF CARMELITES - www.ocarm.org, Celebrating At Home Christmas - Nativity of the Lord, Celebrating At Home - Fourth Sunday of Advent, Celebrating At Home - Third Sunday of Advent, As Carmelites We live our life of allegiance to Jesus Christ and to serve Him faithfully with a pure heart and a clear conscience through a commitment to seek the face of the living God (the contemplative dimension of life), through prayer, through fraternity, and through service (. So it’s like read at once and then meditatio and sit and chew and mull on the words. May the Word of God in the Lectio Divina guide your thoughts and actions in this time of need. Who lives and reigns with you in … Like we can kind of be like, well some people say, “Why I pray all day?” It’s like, well, that’s good. If you put aside 30 minutes to pray we expect to sit down and just be launched into this like deeply meditative prayer. Like it’s something that we kind of grow into. He is an international speaker who has also consulted for many organizations, dioceses, and parishes. Thank you for following our Lectio Divina. CITOC Online can be shared among friends, family and relatives for religious purpose without changing its content. It was something that if they didn’t have it on a particular day, they would really miss it. 5 posts published by Todd Spencer during March 2020. And after that, Lectio, Meditatio, Oratio prayer. So, before we get into our topic, which is Lectio Divina, why don’t we pray together? He is the former founder and president of L’Alto Catholic Institute and Revive Parishes. Because the reality here is that like scripture is the word of God, right? Even right, as captured in history, it says that the revelation of Jesus Christ is this revelation of who the father is, right? And so I’ll take those words and I’ll reflect them back to God. And you’re resting in the powerful word of God which can transform your life, which can renew your strength for a given day at which ultimately is going to be about learning the kind of intimacy with God that He craves with us. And do this method of Lectio Divina in order for those words of scripture which can sometimes seem opaque or difficult or dense and helps them come alive. Amen. Not Registered, yet? But often it’s not till the end of prayer that we start to actually experience some of the fruit of the time and the rest of it, like very much so does it become interacting with our mind and learning to focus our mind and heart on God. Lectio Divina December 2020 – Cycle B1/Cycle Tuesday, December 1, 2020 3 Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4 Thursday, December 3, 2020 6 Friday, December 4, 2020 7 Saturday, December 5, 2020 9 Sunday, December 6, 2020 12 Monday, December 7, 2020 19 Friday, December 8, 2020 Immaculate Conception 21 Wednesday, December 9, 2020 25 LECTIO 365 is a daily devotional resource that helps you pray the Bible every day. And so, for years the spiritual kind of mystics and writers and different people who write in the spiritual life have kind of talked through like, what are some ways of organizing our prayer time so that we can actually like, watch it see impact in our life. So set aside at least 20 minutes to pray and you sit down and you take a passage of scripture. That’s, it’s kind of not a less embodied way of looking at prayer, I think in some ways. And so it’s kind of prayer in general and why there kind of needs to be technique overall. After slowly reading the prayer (see reverse side), the following questions are answered. Like if you want to hear God and prayer it’s like read the words He already said, right? Is that, it almost seems like it’s just should be the kind of thing that we go to, and God kind of shows up and we, there’s just fireworks and we’re fulfill them. Summary In this talk, Tim shares the four-part process of Lectio Divina. Like in a certain sense, like why does prayer have method in the first place? Tim points out that many people view prayer as something that is unstructured and to which they simply show up. Amen. He put a lot of words down on paper at some point for you to encounter what He thinks about the world and what He thinks about human history, what He thinks about your life, and who He is. Lectio 20 days. Lectio Divina: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 ........................................................................... 11. So, In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Like the purpose of Lectio Divina at the end of the day is to get to a place where those words are just soaking in your heart. Submitted news, information, feature, articles, letters, photos, and other materials become the property of the Citoc Online. 4 www.ocarm.org Yahweh is generous to all. So that heaven comes here to earth, right? www.ocarm.org Lectio Divina August 2020 Lectio Divina August 2020 ..... 1 Great, so, because like I said I want to talk about the topic of Lectio Divina, which is kind of a method or a model of prayer that is one of the church’s oldest. Amen. Click here to download the transcript of the video presentation. Amen. Some of you can be very active in prayer and we can be overactive in prayer. Click here to download the printable study guide. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ. After that, what you can do, when you’re kind of chewing on them, after you chew on them is you can, the step three Oratio, which means to pray, right? To be back with you, I should say, because I’ve been grateful to be able to be a participant in the past as one of the presenters and having received your beautiful feedback from a lot of people who have really benefited from these retreats. This week we start the new liturgical year (B) and the time of Advent. That’s what that term means in Latin, “divine reading.” And it’s a way of praying with scripture that actually lets scripture come alive. 2 www.ocarm.org Lectio Divina Saturday, February 1, 2020 Ordinary Time 1) Opening prayer All-powerful and ever-living God, direct Your love that is within us, But for you to become real to people in a new way, to come close and to help them experience the power and the impact of prayer in a way that leads to an increased faith and an increased joy in you, especially in this crazy time in the world. It is challenging for us to keep our faith when trials, persecution, and all kind of difficulties come into our life. Walking in those dark moments we need the Word of God to navigate us, to direct our journey. And I think in some ways it was because prayer largely was a mystery. Carmel. LECTIO DIVINA ACTIVITY Lectio divina (sacred reading) is meditation on a sacred text. ... 11 marzo 2020 prima incontro (di tre) in diretta streaming. 3:16. I love to go to the adoration chapel nearby and just bring my Bible and that’s it. Lectio Divina di martedì della III settimana di Quaresima (Dn 3,25.34-43, Sal 24, Mt 18,21-35) Jesus, we ask for you to anoint and bless the experience of all those who are attending this retreat, that it might be a powerful occasion for you to be encountered personally and not just theoretically. And so the practice of prayer was something that was always familiar to me. And so, encountering the words of Jesus and scripture is actually giving us this image of who God is. Walking in those dark moments we need the Word of … And that whole idea was just kind of alien to me a little bit. And so, in a lot of ways, like encountering the richness of prayer is about discipline and technique and growth. The process contains four stages - Read, Reflect, Respond, and Rest. Viviamo insieme alla fraternità francescana OFM di Cristo Re in Matera la Lectio Divina settimanale. Hail Mary, full of grace. And part of the story lineage of the church in terms of prayer is Lectio Divina or divine reading, right? Lectio divina Thoughts to inspire a life of faith. Like the nearness of God. As I like toss up some of my thoughts on the day.” Really, I think one of the fundamental disciplines of starting to follow Jesus with our life is setting aside this time for personal prayer, where we really give space for God to be encountered, and for us to encounter Him. Lectio Divina for Holy Week We begin our prayer: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. If he was like, all right, I can get through the family rosary, barely, but maybe I’ll fall asleep or it might be kind of kicking and screaming a little bit getting into it. Posted by Todd Spencer December 14, 2020 Posted in Lectio Divina Leave a comment on Luke 1:26-38 for Sunday, December 20, 2020 John 1:6-8, 19-28 for Sunday, December 13, 2020 Here’s a link to this week’s episode, which is a recording of our lectionary text from Advent, 2014. Amen. In this talk, Tim shares the four-part process of Lectio Divina. Here, lectio divina is applied to the bicentennial prayer, which is itself based on several verses of the New Testament, especially St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians. Order of the brothers of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Tim authored Made for Mission: Renewing Your Parish Culture, which was released in Fall 2019 through Our Sunday Visitor. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen. Lectio Divina is one of the best methods for reading Sacred Scripture; one of the most important things a Christian can do to improve their spiritual health. It was like a great of relational day.” We’d feel like a little bit distracted like we hadn’t really had time to connect, right? God wants us to rest with Him in prayer, but many of us are very active in our prayer time. Carmel, may your faith be strengthened. Because at the end of the day that’s why we pray in the first place, right? So that’s Lectio Divina, that’s a four-step process for a guideline for prayer, a method, a technique of prayer that is really going to see us be able to relate to God in a way which is personal and transformative. Lectio Divina for the Second Week of Advent We begin our prayer: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. And then in a particular way, so the one of these ways of praying that’s been especially powerful. His Word Today: Generosity. And so, we are this composite, body, mind and soul, and we pray as body, mind and soul. It’s been, we have records from thousands, over a thousand years ago of people utilizing this methodology of praying with scripture in order to really see a more fruitful prayer life that has them encountering God personally being transformed and changed in prayer. It is challenging for us to keep our faith when trials, persecution, and all kind of difficulties come into our life. And a lot of people, what they’ll do is if it’s a story they’ll start to see themselves visually in the story and kind of ask God like why He’s putting them where He’s putting them in the story and who they are and who they’re interacting with and what they’re doing. I hope it’s been a fruitful experience so far, and one that’s really serving to enrich and enliven your experience of Advent. Pray More Advent Retreat 2020 - Transcript How to Pray Lectio Divina Tim Glemkowski Hi, my name is Tim Glemkowski. Hi, my name is Tim Glemkowski. Do you ever find your mind overly active during prayer? So that He can then further inspire and further speak to you specifically through these words that He’s already spoken generally to all of humanity, right? I would hear about people who, “I heard this in prayer.” Or, “God was, I was kind of praying through these things and this inspiration came to me.” Or they seemed to really even just enjoy prayer. Not Registered, yet? Tim and his wife, Maggie, live in Littleton, CO with their three young children. And we consecrate all of our intentions, our hearts, our needs and our desires to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as we all pray together. But at the same time, long-term this life of prayer and this life of intimacy that we’re growing into becomes a way of being transformed completely. What interested Jesus was that they give “to God what belongs to God!, that is, that they restore the people to God, from their deviation, because with their teaching they blocked Lectio Divina: 2020-11-20. Even some of the spiritual leaders were talking about like often it’s not until the end of a prayer time. I know not everyone kind of had that which, I was something I’m really grateful for, to have had very devout parents, we would do daily rosaries and Mass on Sundays, of course, prayer before meals. Tim Glemkowski is the Director of Strategy for the Archdiocese of Denver, helping to lead mission and renewal initiatives. To be back with you, I should say, because I've been grateful to be able to be a But if you don’t pray intentionally at some point for a definite period of time on a given day then it might be hard for you to feel like you ended the day, you really like connected with God all the way, right? But I like to do it more in the sense of like chewing on the words. And I liked to almost start to see one or two words or one or two sentences or one or two phrases or ideas start to kind of pop out of me. Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat! I’ll kind of relate them back to Him and kind of talk about, what do you want me to see here? The last step is Contemplatio, contemplation, right? It can be both our daily bread, this prayer time that helps us get through difficult times and gives us a deep peace in our life that we can, walk through the difficulties of following Christ in our daily life without being discouraged. And we kind of like meditate to just like reach our kind of like a steady place psychologically or something like that. Walking in those dark moments we need the Word of … O God, who willed your Son to submit for our sake to the yoke of the Cross, so that you might drive from us the power of the enemy, grant us, your servants, to … And this is the core reality of prayer. 5 www.ocarm.org currency, his money to buy and to sell and even to pay the taxes of the Temple! As you go, make this proclamation: 'The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Lectio Divina. But at the same time, it says in scripture the word of God is living in effective. So read the whole passage again and again then meditatio and chew on the words and look for, kind of what phrase or what idea or what sentence is popping out at me. So, when we encounter the word it actually has power to change us. December 4, 2020 Then he touched their eyes and said, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.” (Matthew 9:29) The First Saturday of Advent December 5, 2020 Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Is that in that encounter, like the personal encounter with God, we never walk away unchanged. Lectio Divina for December 2020. Prayer gives us the opportunity to connect with God, but it also allows God the chance to transform us. One The definitions of the word Watch … Continue reading "lectio Divina: 2020-11-27" But the whole idea of prayer is God is real and He can be encountered and that He wants a personal and intimate relationship with us. Quaresma 2020 (Catalan Edition) [Roca i Alsina, Josep] on Amazon.com. How do you think God might be trying to change you through prayer? Quaresima 2020 - Lectio Divina - STORIA DI GIUSEPPE EBREO: prima parte. And so I think in a particular way we kind of have to start with, before we talk about this method of prayer. It’s like the more time we’re like an old married couple, right? Lectio Divina (when in doubt) ~ Meditating and praying with the Scripture using the ancient practice of lectio divina. Lectio Divina for November 2020. And so, to some, maybe even that idea, a little bit of like, there being a method to prayer might sound strange. Lectio Divina for the Third Week of Advent We begin our prayer: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. It’s like we have to admit that. How might working to achieve rest with God in prayer improve your prayer time. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. DOWNLOAD ON APP STORE (Apple) Download on Play Store (Android) Written by leaders from the 24-7 Prayer movement, and produced in partnership with CWR, this resource helps you engage with Scripture to inspire prayer and shape your life.. Monday, February 3, 2020 Lectio Divina: Mark 5:21-43 Tuesday, February 4, 2020 Lectio Divina: Mark 6:1-6 Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Lectio Divina: Mark 6:7-13 Thursday, February 6, 2020 Lectio Divina: Mark 6:14-29 Friday, February 7, 2020 Lectio Divina: Mark 6:30-34 Saturday, February 8, 2020 Lectio Divina: 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time (A) Do you ever view prayer. Frequent reading of Scripture will allow a person to begin genuinely knowing God. Like in this intimate place of meeting the Lord it transforms us slowly over time. CITOC Online is the e-Newsletter published by the Order of Carmelites. Thank you for following our Lectio Divina. So that it’s actually fruitful instead of just distracted or frustrating or shallow or not impactful. He also discusses the importance of prayer and how it is essential in our lives to have that daily intimate moment and conversation with the Lord. And it’s this way of kind of like taking that chewing on the word and now relating like kind of the fruit of your chewing back to God and kind of offering it to Him and and relating it back to Him. He also discusses the importance of prayer and how it is essential in our lives to have that daily intimate moment and conversation with the Lord. 5 www.ocarm.org 3) Reflection • Today's Gospel presents a text taken from the Discourse of the Community (Mt 18,1-35), in which Matthew gathers together some … Thank you for following our Lectio Divina. Our Lectio Divina for this Friday took the reading for the Feast of Christ the King A Mt 25:31-46 “He will take his seat on his throne of … Home; Lectio 365; Lectio 365. But it wasn’t till later in life, after I had my own kind of like personal conversion of really encountering Jesus, and trying to give my life to him and kind of live in that relationship, that I found the richness of prayer. Incline a merciful ear to our cry, we pray, O Lord, and, casting light on the darkness of our hearts, visit us with the grace of your Son. Like our experience of heaven, the transformation that will be, what we are in heaven someday is already starting to be present here on earth in our life in a way that sees us becoming a great scene. ABBAZIA DI SANTA MARIA DI PULSANO (Fg) a cura del monaco Piero Distante 22 marzo 2020 Lectio Divina Domenica IV domenica Quaresima per l’Anno A He says, he’s come to reveal the father and he’s telling us what God is like and what he thinks, by how He lives and acts. Which means, for me the core idea behind contemplation is to rest. The focus of Lectio Divina is not a critical analysis of sacred text, but rather a more personal way of experiencing the word through contemplation and reflection. I'm excited to be with you for this Pray More Novenas Advent Retreat. So four steps or four parts to Lectio Divina if you want to bring this to your next prayer time. Through the intercession of Our Lady of Mt. As Carmelites We live our life of allegiance to Jesus Christ and to serve Him faithfully with a pure heart and a clear conscience through a commitment to seek the face of the living God (the contemplative dimension of life), through prayer, through fraternity, and through service (diakonia). Lectio Divina: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 .................................................................................. 9. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. So what I like to do is I just like to read the passage through first, and then I like to sit for a minute and then that’s sitting for a minute, often they call it they talk about it as step two, which is Meditatio. Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat! And it wasn’t very much of a chore. But in many ways, like, a personal prayer life, or really feeling like I knew how to encounter the Lord with my heart in prayer, and have an intentional and kind of personal routine of prayer that my life was kind of gathered around, for me came somewhat later. For me, it’s usually no more than like a paragraph or a few words. Our Lectio Divina for this Friday considered the Gospel for the First Sunday of Advent Year B Mk 13:33-37 Stay awake, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming. Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ. Download Lectio Divina for December 2020. And in God’s own image and likeness kind of gets more and more imprinted on us. I don’t know about you but growing up I actually was blessed to come from like this really good Catholic family where prayer was a big part of the routine of our household. I think if there’s one thing you could do it really, would really be praying with scripture in prayer, right? Don’t miss the rest of … How to Pray: Lectio Divina – Advent 2020 Read More »