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Thoughts about Lectio
From Fr. Thomas Keating:
The ripe fruit of the regular practice of Lectio Divina is assimilating the Word of God and being assimilated by it. It is a movement from conversation to communion. It also enables us to express our deep spiritual experience of union with God in words or symbols that are appropriate. There is thus a movement, not only iinto silence, but from silence into expression.
Father Thomas's complete article can be found on the Contemplative Outreach web site:
www.contemplativeoutreach.org (under "articles and resources" Lectio Divina)
From M. Robert Mulholland's Shaped by the Word (see your bibliography):
Keep asking yourself, "What is God seeking to say to me in all of this?" By adopting this posture toward the text, you will begin the process of reversing the learning mode that establishes you as the controlling power that seeks to master a body of information. Instead, you will begin to allow the text to become an instrument of God's grace in your life. You will begin to open yourself to the possibility of God setting the agenda for your life through the text.
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