Reading the Scriptures Together in Holy WeekLectio Divina is a way of reading and reflecting on the scriptures. As a way of reading together, even though we are separate, consider setting aside fifteen minutes at noon. You're also welcome to post a comment on this blog, something meaningful or significant that comes to you.
Read through the text three times. If possible, read the text aloud. After each reading, use the prompts below to shape your reflections. John 13.1-17, 31b-35 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” Jesus answered, “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for the feet, but is entirely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.” For he knew who was to betray him; for this reason he said, “Not all of you are clean.” After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” Prompts: (Read verse first time through) 1. What word or phrase stands out to you from the reading? (Read verse second time through) 2. What invitation or challenge do you find in the reading? (Read verse third time through) 3. What are you grateful for? Closing Between the words, beneath the words, beyond the words, may God meet you in the places where words cannot go. Jan Richardson (Voices Together 990)
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Reading the Scriptures Together in Holy WeekLectio Divina is a way of reading and reflecting on the scriptures. As a way of reading together, even though we are separate, consider setting aside fifteen minutes at noon. You're also welcome to post a comment on this blog, something meaningful or significant that comes to you.
Read through the text three times. If possible, read the text aloud. After each reading, use the prompts below to shape your reflections. Hebrews 12.1-3 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary or lose heart. Prompts: (Read verses first time through) 1. What word or phrase stands out to you from the reading? (Read verses second time through) 2. What invitation or challenge do you find in the reading? (Read verses third time through) 3. What are you grateful for? Closing Between the words, beneath the words, beyond the words, may God meet you in the places where words cannot go. Jan Richardson (Voices Together 990) Reading the Scriptures Together in Holy Week Lectio Divina is a way of reading and reflecting on the scriptures. As a way of reading together, even though we are separate, consider setting aside fifteen minutes at noon. You're also welcome to post a comment on this blog, something meaningful or significant that comes to you.
Read through the text three times. If possible, read the text aloud. After each reading, use the prompts below to shape your reflections. Psalm 71.1-14 In you, O Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me. Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel. For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from my birth; it was you who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you. I have been like a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge. My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all day long. Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength is spent. For my enemies speak concerning me, and those who watch for my life consult together. They say, “Pursue and seize that person whom God has forsaken, for there is no one to deliver.” O God, do not be far from me; O my God, make haste to help me! Let my accusers be put to shame and consumed; let those who seek to hurt me be covered with scorn and disgrace. But I will hope continually, and will praise you yet more and more. Prompts: (Read verses first time through) 1. What word or phrase stands out to you from the reading? (Read verses second time through) 2. What invitation or challenge do you find in the reading? (Read verses third time through) 3. What are you grateful for? Closing Between the words, beneath the words, beyond the words, may God meet you in the places where words cannot go. Jan Richardson (Voices Together 990) Reading the Scriptures Together in Holy WeekLectio Divina is a way of reading and reflecting on the scriptures. As a way of reading together, even though we are separate, consider setting aside fifteen minutes at noon. You're also welcome to post a comment on this blog, something meaningful or significant that comes to you.
Read through the text three times. If possible, read the text aloud. After each reading, use the prompts below to shape your reflections. Isaiah 42.1-9 Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his teaching. Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it: I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness. I am the Lord, that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to idols. See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them. Prompts: (Read verses first time through) 1. What word or phrase stands out to you from the reading? (Read verses second time through) 2. What invitation or challenge do you find in the reading? (Read verses third time through) 3. What are you grateful for? Closing Between the words, beneath the words, beyond the words, may God meet you in the places where words cannot go. Jan Richardson (Voices Together 990) Holy Week is meant to draw us more deeply into the story of Jesus, and into the meaning and hope of his life, death, and resurrection. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week, you are invited to join us in a practice known as Lectio Divina.
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