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-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.

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.