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Ahead of the Curve
July 23, 2012
I was reading in a book tonight about Catholic practices in the home, and ran into a familiar (yet unfamiliar) term – Lectio Divina. I thought it was synonymous with the Liturgy of the Hours, but it’s not. It is the practice of reading and reflecting on scripture. And guess what? I was already doing it and didn’t know!
What you do is read a passage of scripture (I am currently continuing in Psalms and also reading a chapter of Luke each day), then you meditate on what you read, pray about what you read and contemplate how you can apply it to your life. Well, earlier this year I bought myself a Bible – one that will go with me for a long time – and I started reading it. I started with a Psalm and the book of John. And each day, after I read, I would just close my Bible up and think about what I’d read, ask for help in digesting it, and go on to my prayers for the day in light of what I’d read. So, each morning when I did this, I was practicing Lectio Divina and I didn’t even know it. Cool – I am ahead of the curve for once :-).
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