Category Archives: Lectio Divina

St Anselm of Bec wrote: Lord, let me seek you in desiring you; let me desire you in seeking you; let me find you in loving you; let me love you in finding you. Solitude and isolation; searching for Jesus and finding him; prayer as the beginning of all that we do and say…

This passage confronts us with Jesus the healer; Jesus the one who makes whole again; Jesus who exercises a power which the world has not seen nor experienced; Jesus who prays in community and in solitude; Jesus who is a man inserted into his own religious tradition and practice entirely…

As with everything that Jesus says and does, sign is never far away. And the signs that he gives don’t merely point us in a certain direction – if we are attentive enough – they also contain the reality to which they point. So it is with this moment of baptism…

The compelling magnetism of John the Baptist, as he draws crowds from all Judea and Jerusalem, is fascinating for us also. He seems to be a man totally out of sync with his surroundings – both his fashion sense and his diet mark him down as someone who…

St Mark’s Gospel begins with a direct address to us – The beginning of the Good News about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. We might take a moment, and as long as we need, to reflect on ‘beginnings’. The invitation to begin again, in all that we do…

Conscious that one of the hallmarks and mainstays of the monastic contemplative life is lectio divina, we invite you to take on this ancient spiritual practice of praying with the word of Sacred Scripture. Today we offer a short explanation about lectio divina…