"Everything written about me . . . must be fulfilled."
We invite you to a few minutes of silence before we begin our prayer time together.
Take a deep breath and breathe in the breath of God, knowing by faith that God breathes into us the breath of life.
CONTEMPLATIVE / SILENT PRAYER
Our Centering Prayer sit is 20 - 30 minutes sounded by the chime/chant. At the end of the Prayer sit, we will linger in silence a few minutes, then follow by praying together the Our Father.
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LECTIO DIVINA: Listening to the Word of God with the ears of our heart [See Chopping Wood (or Carrots) Under the Gaze of God for a discussion of Lectio Divina].
First reading & silent reflection: Reflect in silence.
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LECTIO: Luke 24: 36b-48. Jesus himself stood among the
disciples and said to them, “Peace be with you.” . . . 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.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 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, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is
to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are
witnesses of these things.”
Second reading & reflection: What word or phrase catches your attention? Share or pass.
Third reading & reflection: How does this word or phrase touch your life? Share or pass.
Fourth and last reading & silent reflection: How is God inviting you to grow? We will reflect in silence for a few moments before we move from Lectio Prayer to the teaching by Father Keating.
Teaching: What the resurrection teaches us
is that God doesn’t forcibly intervene to stop pain and death. Instead he
redeems the pain and vindicates the death. God rids the world of evil not by
using force to blot it out, but by vindicating what’s good in the eyes of evil
so that eventually the good is all that’s left. Evil has to forever “look on
the one whom they have pierced” (John 19:37) until it understands what it has
done and lets itself be transformed.
What
the resurrection of Jesus reveals is that there’s a deep moral structure to the
universe, that the contours of the universe are love and goodness and truth,
and that this structure, anchored at its center by Ultimate Love and Power, is
nonnegotiable. Ronald Rolheiser, The Passion and the Cross, 97
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We now take some time to share our thoughts and reflections on our own spiritual journey and our prayer practice. Followed by brief prayers of intercession. Share or pass.
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Go in the name of Christ Jesus to love and serve the Lord. Thanks be to God!
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[This is an adapted format courtesy of Martha Johnston, Contemplative Outreach of Maryland and Washington, DC]
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