NOTE: BEGINNING ON OCTOBER 21, OUR SHARED LECTIO DIVINA WILL BEGIN AT 9am (NINE) EACH MONDAY
Meeting ID. 814 8663 8380
Our lection is taken from the Gospel for next Sunday, the 23rd after Pentecost Oct 27, 2024, Proper 25
Call to Prayer
Leader Let Us gather in the welcome of our Triune God, Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit.
Gathered: Lord, it is good for us to be here.
Lighting the Christ candle
Leader Jesus Christ is the Light of the world.
Gathered: The Light no darkness can overcome
Were not our hearts burn -ing as He spoke
Were not His words words we longed to hear
Were not our eyes opened in the breaking of the bread
Were not our hearts burn -ing as He spoke
Our God is here He walks among us
When two or three of us are gathered in his name
Our God is here and he surrounds us
And all creation sings the glory of his name
And we shall rise, as he is risen
And though he promised us we did not understand
Yes we shall rise as he is risen
And we will know him when he calls to us by name.
Leader: - During this first reading, listen for the overall sense of the passage. Select a word or phrase that captures your attention, as though the Holy Spirit were flashing a light from the text to your heart, asking you to notice it. Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, allow your eyes to be opened and your heart to be warmed as God speaks to you.
Leader: During this second spoken reading let us listen for the feelings, sensations and connections that God's Word stirs in us. What message might God be speaking into your life now?.
Leader: - During this final spoken reading let us attend to our own hearts for a response to God’s love. What response will you carry forth from this encounter with the Living Word into the world?
Leader: Let us now rest in the silence and attend once more to the presence of Christ among us. We hold a quiet space to hear God speaking in our hearts.
"Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind", JESUS MAFA, Cameroon, 1973
In the 1970s, the French Catholic priest François Vidil collaborated with the Mafa ethnic community in Cameroon to create a series of artwork known as Vie de Jesus Mafa (Life of Jesus Mafa, or simply Jesus Mafa), which depicts various events in the life of Jesus using Black depictions rather than White. These images were actually depictions of real-world recreations of biblical scenes by Mafa people, and have since become popular worldwide, and perhaps especially among African Americans, as an inculturated form of Catholic iconography.
Mark 10: 46-52
46 They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. 47 When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" 48 Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" 49 Jesus stood still and said, "Call him here." And they called the blind man, saying to him, "Take heart; get up, he is calling you." 50 So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51 Then Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "My teacher, let me see again." 52 Jesus said to him, "Go; your faith has made you well." Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way.
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 Jesus Christ, teacher and healer, you heard the cry of the blind beggar when others would have silenced him.
Teach us to be attentive to the voices others ignore,
that we might respond through the power of the Spirit
to heal the afflicted and to welcome the abandoned
for your sake and the sake of the gospel. Amen.
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