Introduction to the sacred art of Lectio Divina (Facilitator: Roland Ashby).

Saturday 25 May at St Peter’s Eastern Hill, 15 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne. 10am-3pm. BYO Lunch.

Lectio Divina (literally divine or sacred reading) is an ancient Benedictine practice of reading and praying the Scriptures and other sacred texts by listening with the “ear of the heart” for the gentle stirrings of the Spirit, and for a life-giving or life-transforming word God is offering us for our life today.

Abbess Christine Valters Paintner, author of Lectio Divina – The Sacred Art, describes Lectio Divina as “being present to each moment in a heart- centred way. When we pray Lectio we see sacred text as God’s living words being spoken to our hearts in the moment. The practice allows us to encounter God in an active and intimate way. The invitation of Lectio Divina, therefore, is to cultivate a heart-centred intimacy with the sacred texts ...  Lectio asks us to listen, savour and respond – not simply understand their meaning.”