Fr. Tomas Kocik Responds

NLM: Reforming the Irreformable? A Postscript

Related: From Peter Kwasniewski --
Lectio Divina: What, Where, When
Just Say No to '65!

The Theology of the Offertory - Part 2: the Offertory and Priesthood in the Liturgy by Gregory DiPippo

Fr. Cassian on Lectio Divina

Post by Monks of Norcia.

Zenit: Vatican Publishing House Releases Lectio Divina Book

Related:
Pope Francis: The Communion of Saints Is a "Solidarity Between Heaven and Earth"

Items of Interest, 26 April 2012

The Revolutionary Conservatism of Jefferson's Small Republics by Arthur J. Versluis

John Michael Greer, Seascape With Methane Plumes

CISPA is the New SOPA
Jordan Bloom, The Cyber-Narc Bill

Peter Hitchens, The Over-Rating of Oscar Wilde

Chief Justice Says States Have Compromised Their Sovereignty

The False Idol Of American Democracyby Michael Hill (via Rebellion)

KunstlerCast #203: Live Audience Podcast – Part 2 (mp3)
JHK & Duncan at Union College Humanities Seminar

A good Republican - Kristi Noem, My Voice: Focus on real issues, not sideshows

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Soldier by Steve Sailer (on Tiger Woods)

Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, A Full Spectrum Confrontation World?
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Memory Failure at the Pentagon
Tomgram: Lewis Lapham, Machine-Made News

Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme

How Intellectual Property Destroyed Men's Shaving

via some Left Conservatives:


Economics:
Redefining wealth by Craig K. Comstock
To young people, justice is a key ingredient in good food by Yoni Landau (EB)

Relocalization:
Sustainable Local Economies - Nick Osborne Transition Network Speaker at 7GGC

Occupy the Farm, A Model of Resistance

Gene Logsdon, It Pays to Stay Home (EB)

Hiding Behind the Screen

Permaculture:
raised garden beds: hugelkultur instead of irrigation
Hegelkultur
Why Permaculture Design Inspires Me

Catholic:
Kathleen Blum, A Tuscan Childhood
The legacy of the 13th Apostle: origins of the East Christian conceptions of church and state relation
What is “Lectio Divina” and will it help my prayer life? – A Guide to Lectio Divina
Cats, Compliments, and Whit Stillman
8 Reasons Catholics Are the Worst Protestors
Who cares about protesting? Catholics have been neutered as an effective political force, whether they have been complicit or not in this process. (E. Michael Jones talks about the destruction of Catholic neighborhoods in the major cities.)

A liberal Protestant who doesn't understand Church authority (or Christianity, for that matter) - Having the Sisters' Back

CWR: The Church and the Sisters: What Is Really Happening?

Catholic Because I’m a Sinner by Jack Mulder

Teaching Virtue for the New Evangelization


Education:
The Real Business of Liberal Learning

Diet and Health:
Memorandum by Richard Horton (PI 108)
THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AND MEDICAL JOURNALS
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science



Saturated Fat is Good for You - by Uffe Ravnskov MD - Part 1 of 3 By Uffe Ravnskov MD

MDA: 2 More Common Nutrient Deficiencies
Why Fast? Part Seven – Q&A
Dear Mark: Risk of Gout?

Alas, Tom Murphy buys into the China Study propaganda: Flex-Fuel Humans (EB)

Marriage:
How young should a woman marry? (Part 1)
A Conversation with John Witte about the Evolution of Marriage Law in the West (mp3)

History:
The Methods of Medieval Translators: A Comparison of the Latin Text of Virgil’s Aeneid with its Old French Adaptations


Music:
The Punch Brothers

The complete program.



Larry Vickers:

Sandro Magister: "Lectio Divina." The Pope Takes Everyone Back to School
Benedict XVI has taught the clergy of Rome how to read the Sacred Scriptures. And also the seminarians. But his lesson is for all. And he has put it into practice in his book on Jesus

Zenit: Pope's "Lectio Divina" to Roman Priests (Part 2)
"Being a Servant of the Eucharist Is ... a Depth of the Priestly Mystery"

Zenit: Pope's "Lectio Divina" to Roman Priests (Part 1)
"The Priest's Mission Is to Be a Mediator, a Bridge That Connects

Zenit: "Lectio Divina" as Simple as 1, 2, 3, 4

Zenit: Lectio Divina at 15th General Congregation

Zenit: "Lectio Divina" Seen as a Compass and Spiritual GPS

"Lectio Divina" Seen as a Compass and Spiritual GPS

Site on Meditation of Scripture Aims to Attract Youth

By Miriam Díez i Bosch

ROME, DEC. 18, 2007 (Zenit.org).- A "spiritual GPS" and a "compass for life" are two images that have been used to illustrate the importance of reading the Bible, says a Catholic consultor for the United Biblical Societies.

Ricardo Grozna said this to ZENIT when commenting on the Web site www.lectionautas.com, which offers guides for "lectio divina," or the meditative reading of Scripture, and aims especially to attract youth. It already has 50,000 users.

"To define 'lectio divina' as a GPS [Global Positioning System] is to see in it a satellite that tells us where we are, like a compass, which indicates to us the path to follow," Grozna said. He commented that Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, "has referred to 'lectio divina' as a GPS, and the Pope has defined the Bible as a 'compass for life.'"

Sacred Scripture "is a book that interprets my life; the Bible ends up being like a mirror that helps me, and teaches me to seek a path," Grozna added. "For years, Pope John Paul II and then Benedict XVI insisted a great deal that 'lectio divina,' which was a method of monastic prayer of the monks, could reach all Christians."

Novel evangelization

The program of "lectio divina" on the Internet consists in offering users texts and MP3 files. Users are chiefly youth who download the audio files on their mobile phones. Grozna explained that the aim of the program is to train young people who can lead other youth in reading the Bible.

"The Church is taking all the programs promoting biblical reading as a priority," explained Grozna, pointing especially to his experience in Latin America. "Catholics have delayed a little in rediscovering the Bible, but the Bible has always been present in the Church. [...] I don't read the Bible, it is the Bible that reads me."

Grozna said the site's success is shown by hundreds of e-mail messages from youth telling "how they are changing their lives by following the prayerful reading."

The method is also ecumenical, he added: "'Lectio divina' has been a point for moving forward in dialogue with other Christian brothers." And it also serves as a social apostolate, "In some countries, the parish youth are using the method of 'lectio divina' to reach ostracized youth; those who are in very poor neighborhoods, those who have been victims of drugs, violence, gangs."

Hugo Flores, manager of the site, was in Rome to present the program. He told ZENIT the program has been well received by theologians and biblical scholars. "They have taken 'lectio divina' as a point to help them evangelize and carry the word of the Lord to more groups. Cardinals, bishops, priests ... they are fascinated with this novelty, this new form of evangelizing through the Internet."

Also from Zenit:
When a Church Is Desacralized
6-Year-Old on Way to Sainthood

Dom Christopher Lazowski, The Place of Lectio Divina

The Place of Lectio Divina in the Liturgical Life

A request for help, and a (different) modest proposal

by Dom Christopher Lazowski, OSB

Missionaries of "Lectio Divina" Being Formed

Code: ZE06120703

Date: 2006-12-07

Missionaries of "Lectio Divina" Being Formed

BOGOTA, Colombia, DEC. 7, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Latin American bishops' council has helped form 106 new youthful missionaries of "lectio divina" -- sacred reading of Scripture -- for Mexico and Central America.

CELAM's Pastoral Biblical Center for Latin America joined with the United Bible Societies in the project, which aims to form 10,000 such missionaries.

Under the agreement, a second formation workshop of national leaders was held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, from Nov. 17-20, in which national leaders from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua took part.

Priests from the respective countries also took part to learn about the project, with an eye toward supporting the young missionaries in their respective nations.

The Tegucigalpa workshop was supported by Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, the diocese's archbishop.

Inspiration for the project came from Benedict XVI's letter for World Youth Day on Palm Sunday of this year: "I urge you to become familiar with the Bible, and to have it at hand so that it can be your compass pointing out the road to follow."

Lectio Divina

Created a post on lectio divina over at depositum-fidei.