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#21 Love like the whip used to start a top

Posted in God, Prayer, Spiritual Exercises, Spirituality, Theology, tagged , , on May 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Those who turn over part of their day to spiritual exercises know that a process like the four-step lectio divina process takes dedication and practice.  Without a doubt, the more transcendent the God, the harder it is to reach that God.  Because smart readers want to know, and there were smart readers during the late medieval [...]

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#20 God: only four short steps away

Posted in God, Prayer, Religion, Spiritual Exercises, Spirituality, tagged , on April 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Stuff in books can help us pray.   The monastics prayed through divine reading – in fact, a twelfth-century Carthusian monk by name of Guigo II worked out the four-step process that’s been in use ever since. And what are those four steps? Reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation.  You’ll want to select a passage—a paragraph from a book, [...]

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