| Genesis 1:1-2:4a Psalm 8 | | 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 | Matthew 28:16-20 |
Friday, May 26, 2023
Group Lectio Divina, Monday, May 29, 8:00am (hosted by Alan on Google Meet) https://meet.google.com/zhy-jrcw-xrz
Lectio Divina Procedures:
With any text, image, music, nature, a person:
Statio Stop, breathe, quiet, be present
Lectio: Look, Listen, Notice
Meditatio: Make connections, find meanings, Reflect on God’s messages to you
Oratio: Talk to God, Respond to God's Message, Express your needs, desires
Contemplatio: Rest in oneness. Bask in Belovedness
when praying with scripture, poems, and any meaningful words:
1st reading: Read: Listen for the overall sense of the passage. Choose one word or phrase that captures your attention as you listen, as if the Holy Spirit were flashing a light from your heart to the text , asking you to notice it. Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, what opens your eyes or warms your heart as God is speaking to you?
2nd reading: Reflect- What feelings, sensations or memories are you experiencing? Describe something God be telling you as you listen.
3rd reading: Respond- Are you moved to say something to God in response to the meanings and observations you are hearing? Is there a request, a question, or realization that you would like God to hear from you?
After the 3rd Sharing, Share the Silence: Rest in God- Hold a quiet space to listen to God speaking in your heart, beyond words.
16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
Lord's Prayer (recited together). Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. for thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, forever and ever. Amen.
Closing Prayer: Holy, holy, holy God, in calling forth creation from the void, revealing yourself in human flesh, and pouring forth your wisdom to guide us, you manifest your concern for your whole universe. Fill us with strength and courage, with discernment and compassion, that we may be your instruments of justice and love in this world. We pray in the name of Creator, Christ and Holy Spirit, Amen
Sunday, May 21, 2023
Group Lectio Divina, Monday, May 22, 8:00am (hosted by Alan on Google Meet) https://meet.google.com/zhy-jrcw-xrz
When Alan hosts on Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/zhy-
Lectio Divina Procedures:
With any text, image, music, nature, a person:
Statio Stop, breathe, quiet, be present
Lectio: Look, Listen, Notice
Meditatio: Make connections, find meanings, Reflect on God’s messages to you
Oratio:Talk to God, Respond to God's Message, Express your needs, desires
Contemplatio: Rest in oneness. Bask in Belovedness
when praying with scripture, poems, and any meaningful words:
1st reading: Read: Listen for the overall sense of the passage. Choose one word or phrase that captures your attention as you listen, as if the Holy Spirit were flashing a light from your heart to the text , asking you to notice it. Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, what opens your eyes or warms your heart as God is speaking to you?
2nd reading: Reflect- What feelings, sensations or memories are you experiencing? Describe something God be telling you as you listen.
3rd reading: Respond- Are you moved to say something to God in response to the meanings and observations you are hearing? Is there a request, a question, or realization that you would like God to hear from you?
After the 3rd Sharing, Share the Silence: Rest in God- Hold a quiet space to listen to God speaking in your heart, beyond words.
| Veni Sancti Spiritus | |
| Kossowski, Adam |
John 20:19-23
19 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you."20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
Lord's Prayer (recited together)
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. for thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, forever and ever. Amen.
Closing Prayer:
Perplexing, Pentecostal God,you infuse us with your Spirit,
urging us to vision and dream.
May the gift of your presence find voice in our lives, that our babbling may be transformed into discernment and the flickering of many tongues light an unquenchable fire of compassion and justice. Amen.
Friday, May 12, 2023
Group Lectio Divina, Monday, May 15, 8:00am
Lectio Divina Procedure:
1st reading: Read: Listen for the overall sense of the passage. Choose one word or phrase that captures your attention as you listen, as if the Holy Spirit were flashing a light from your heart to the text , asking you to notice it. Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, what opens your eyes or warms your heart as God is speaking to you?
2nd reading: Reflect- What feelings, sensations or memories are you experiencing? Describe something God be telling you as you listen.
3rd reading: Respond- Are you moved to say something to God in response to the meanings and observations you are hearing? Is there a request, a question, or realization that you would like God to hear from you?
After the 3rd Sharing, Share the Silence: Rest in God- Hold a quiet space to listen to God speaking in your heart, beyond words.
Mysteries of the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ (detail) Antonio Campi, 1569 |
Luke 24:44-53
44 Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you--that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled." 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high." 50 Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. 51 While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. 52 And they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy;53 and they were continually in the temple blessing God.
Lord's Prayer (recited together)
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. for thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, forever and ever. Amen.
- Risen and ascended Christ,
you surround us with witnesses
and send us the Counselor
who opens our minds to understand your teaching.
Bless us with such grace
that our lives may become a blessing for the world
now, and in the age to come. Amen.
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Friday, May 5, 2023
Shared Lectio Divina for Monday, May 8, 2023, 8:00am
Lectio Divina Procedure:
1st reading: Read: Listen for the overall sense of the passage. Choose one word or phrase that captures your attention as you listen, as if the Holy Spirit were flashing a light from your heart to the text , asking you to notice it. Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, what opens your eyes or warms your heart as God is speaking to you?
2nd reading: Reflect- What feelings, sensations or memories are you experiencing? Describe something God be telling you as you listen.
3rd reading: Respond- Are you moved to say something to God in response to the meanings and observations you are hearing? Is there a request, a question, or realization that you would like God to hear from you?
After the 3rd Sharing, Share the Silence: Rest in God- Hold a quiet space to listen to God speaking in your heart, beyond words.
John 14: 15-19
15 "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. 18 "I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. 19 In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.
Lord's Prayer (recited together)
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. for thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, forever and ever. Amen.
Closing Prayer
O God, your Son remained with his disciples after his resurrection,
teaching them to love all people as neighbors.
Open our hearts to your power moving around us and between us and within us, until your glory is revealed in communities transformed by justice and compassion, and in the healing of all that is broken. Amen.
teaching them to love all people as neighbors.
Open our hearts to your power moving around us and between us and within us, until your glory is revealed in communities transformed by justice and compassion, and in the healing of all that is broken. Amen.
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