When challenged by a legal expert about what was most important about the Law, Jesus famously answered: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind ... and love your neighbour as yourself” (Mt 22.37-39). It’s a wonderfully simple response. But this simplicity is deceptive.
Christian daily prayer services, known as offices, developed into their canonical form with the rise of monastic daily cycles of prayer, known as the Hours.
Let us move toward faith, trusting that God is cheering us on, quietly raising the bar for us and knowing that we will clear it.
We owe something to each other. Other people don’t exist for our convenience and they aren’t means to an end. Neither do we exist for the convenience of others. Rather, our relationships involve dynamics of give and take and mutual responsibility to and for one another.
Lectio Divina, or 'sacred reading,' is the deliberate devotional reading of Scripture for personal insight and communion with God. While there are many variations of this practice, this week's practice focused on exploring different layers of meaning within the text.
