• Group lectio divina
Praying the Word
“The Word of God must be repeated, appropriated, cultivated. It must reach every area of life, involving, as Jesus says in the Gospel, the whole heart, the whole soul, the whole strength (Mk 12:28). It must resonate within us.”
Pope Francis
“The Word of God must be repeated, appropriated, cultivated. It must reach every area of life, involving, as Jesus says in the Gospel, the whole heart, the whole soul, the whole strength (Mk 12:28). It must resonate within us.”
Pope Francis
Returning to Christ
Why not return to Christ?
to speak with Christ,
Listen to Christ?
"You're talking to him."
when you pray,
He's the one you listen to.
when you read the Holy Scriptures"
St. Ambrose
To be a disciple
What Jesus asks of the disciple,
It's about spending your life,
throughout his life,
in favor of the Gospel.
This is how we can keep her alive.
Even more importantly, to make it grow.
If we remain with the Lord,
We pick it up.
He who, on the contrary,
he remains only with himself,
he who does not spend his life
than for himself,
that one scatters,
He doesn't pick anything up at all.
Bishop Vincenzo Paglia
To serve and to love
The Bible does not make us flee.
in a world that would be unreal
and removed from our present life.
On the contrary, the Bible shows us
how much our way
to manage the daily
said something
of our way of loving
and to serve the Lord
by loving and serving
those
that surround us.
Pope Francis
Some valuable advice for ‘lectio divina’,
the prayerful reading of the Word.
"We urgently need to become familiar and intimate with Sacred Scripture and with the Risen One, who never ceases to break the Word and the Bread in the community of believers. That is why we need to constantly enter into a relationship of trust with Sacred Scripture, otherwise our hearts will remain cold and our eyes will remain closed, struck as if by countless forms of blindness."
Pope Francis
Available for download
Three texts
Every day
An encounter
with the Lord
Jesus Christ,
the centre of our faith
As we know, the Holy Scriptures are the written testimony of the divine Word, the canonical memorial that attests to the event of Revelation. Therefore, the Word of God precedes and transcends the Bible. That is why the centre of our faith is not only a book, but a history of salvation and, above all, a Person, Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.
In our approach to Scripture, we should not seek the manifestation of this or that idea, or an increase in knowledge, but rather a commitment between God and us, between the One who speaks to us and we who listen to Him; that is to say, we must approach Him to enter into a covenant.
Pope Francis at the Pontifical Biblical Commission
Excerpt from
‘Praying the Word’
by Enzo Bianchi
Excerpts from
‘Praying the Word’
by Enzo Bianchi
Scripture was given to us to overcome our forgetfulness of God. It is so important to remember this when we pray, as a Psalm teaches us: ‘I remember the deeds of the Lord, I recall your wonders of old’ (76:12). Also, the wonders and miracles that the Lord has accomplished in our own lives.
It is essential to remember the good we have received: without remembering it, we become strangers to ourselves, ‘passers-by’ of existence; without memory, we uproot ourselves from the soil that nourishes us and allow ourselves to be carried away like leaves in the wind. On the contrary, remembering is reconnecting with stronger bonds, it is being part of a story, it is breathing with a people. Memory is not a private thing; it is the life that unites us to God and to others. For this reason, in the Bible, the memory of the Lord will be passed down from generation to generation, told from father to son, as this beautiful passage says: "Tomorrow, when your son asks you, 'What are these edicts, decrees and ordinances that the Lord our God has prescribed for you? “ then you shall say to your son, 'We were slaves - the whole history of slavery - and before our eyes the Lord performed signs and wonders”" (Deut. 6:20-22). You shall pass on the memory to your son.
Pope Francis, Homily of 14 June 2020
