Reader's Poem: Life Together
Community is a reality created by God in Christ.
We are reverent listeners and participants in God’s sacred story.
In fellowship we learn to be alone; in aloneness we learn to live rightly in fellowship.
Ultimately, we have no charge but to serve our brothers and sisters, for they stand as signs of God’s truth and grace.
The Benedictine School of Spirituality (Part 3 of 3): Sustaining Lectio Divina and Preferring Nothing Whatsoever to Christ
Over time, the practice of lectio divina becomes less a set formula for prayer than a disposition of prayerfulness. We learn to slow down and trust the Spirit’s often non-linear process. We marvel at the way the Word so often speaks into our experiences and submit to the ways God is forming us today. Any fruits of that growth are noticed not necessarily within the set boundaries of “prayer time,” but in the fruit of everyday life.