Lectio Divina: Contemplative Awakening and Awareness by Christine Valters Paintner,Lucy Wynkoop

By Christine Valters Paintner,Lucy Wynkoop

Lectio Divina: Contemplative Awakening and know-how deals a special prayer source that gives a radical grounding within the diverse moments of the lectio adventure: listening, studying, savoring, responding, after which considering God s be aware. it's going to act as a advisor if you have a wish to pray extra deeply into this historic perform and invitations readers right into a spirituality that includes a means of being with God and the entire of lifestyles. Lectio Divina, grounded in Benedictine culture, presents an available method of praying with scripture in addition to numerous concrete and inventive methods of praying lectio with diversified texts resembling poetry, icons, and films. The ebook additionally explores methods of bringing lectio into scripture learn and integrating lectio into busy lives. It concludes through supplying the reader an exploration of the transformational price of lectio divina and a fashion of utilizing lectio to wish with lifestyles experience.

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