{"id":5626,"date":"2010-10-10T22:14:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T11:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2010-10-10T23:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T12:20:04","slug":"lectio-divina-bible-ruminating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/10\/10\/lectio-divina-bible-ruminating\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectio Divina: Bible ‘ruminating’!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In preparing myself\u00a0for this week I reread an article I have on\u00a0‘Lectio Divina’ and put it into practise with Matthew 14:13-21<\/a>, Jesus feeding the 5,000 with the 5\u00a0loves and 2\u00a0fishes. I have had\u00a0a wonderful time of reading, reflecting,\u00a0further marvelling at the person and compassion and provision of Jesus the Christ. I have hunted up a sculpture, a\u00a0mosaic plate and a\u00a0photo that have all added to my ‘ruminating’ on the Biblical text and taking scripture further into my life. All and every way of immersing myself in the Bible is life giving. Lectio Divina is one way; a helpful way. Enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Basically Lectio is reflecting on a small portion of the text. It is a different approach to the way we would normally read the bible. It is a way of reading slowly and with reverence and appreciation. It is ruminating on the text, savouring the text until all the sweet juices are given up. It is a divine encounter where we have to learn to read slowly and with careful attention; we have to read the words of scripture over and over until they pierce us through. They are to be imprinted on our hearts and memories so that they can continually return to our minds.
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\nLectio Divina is a fluid process, which for ease of understanding, can best be described as a movement, a progression, stages which flow into one another:
\nLectio \u2013 Meditatio \u2013 Oratio \u2013 Contemplatio \u2013 Evangelizatio \u2013 Ruminatio
\n(Read \u2013 understand\/reflect \u2013 pray \u2013 be still \u2013 respond \u2013 continue to ponder.)<\/p>\n

You may like to use a journal to dialogue with the text\/with God\/with yourself \u2013 asking questions like:<\/p>\n

What do you want of me?
\nHow can I hear what you are saying and allow it to shape my life?
\nHow is my life touched by the Word?
\nIs there an invitation there for me?
\nDoes the Word relate to what is happening in my life now?
\nHow does it make me feel? Why?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Article, An Introduction to Lectio Divina<\/a> by Margaret Crook. Thanks to Melbourne Anglican’s ‘Faith and Worship’<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In preparing myself\u00a0for this week I reread an article I have on\u00a0‘Lectio Divina’ and put it into practise with Matthew 14:13-21, Jesus feeding the 5,000 with the 5\u00a0loves and 2\u00a0fishes. I have had\u00a0a wonderful time of reading, reflecting,\u00a0further marvelling at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}