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CONCLUSION
LECTIO *DIVINA is an ancient spiritual art that is being rediscovered in our day. It is a way of allowing the Scriptures to become again what God intended that they should be - a means of uniting us to Himself. In lectio divina we discover our own underlying spiritual rhythm. We experience God in a gentle oscillation back and forth between spiritual activity and receptivity, in the movement from practice into contemplation and back again into spiritual practice.
*LECTIO DIVINA teaches us about the God who truly loves us. In lectio divina *we dare to believe that our loving Father continues to extend His embrace to us today. And His embrace is real. In His word we experience ourselves as personally loved by God; as the recipients of a word which He gives uniquely to each of us whenever we turn to Him in the Scriptures.
*FINALLY, lectio divina teaches us about ourselves. In lectio divina we discover that there is no place in our hearts, no interior corner or closet that cannot be opened and offered to God. God teaches us in lectio divina what it means to be members of His royal priesthood - a people called to consecrate all of our memories, our hopes and our dreams to Christ. *by Fr. Luke Dysinger, O.S.B.
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**Pope Benedict and ***Lectio Divina
*In an address to a congress of Biblical scholars meeting in Rome to discuss “Sacred Scripture in the Life of the Church,” the Holy Father recommended the monastic practice of lectio divina, the prayerful, meditative reading of the Bible. “Assiduous reading of sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer makes that intimate dialogue possible in which, through reading, one hears God speaking, and through prayer, one responds with a confident opening of the heart,” the Pope said (zenit.org).
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