While Mary gives us the model to strive for as we LOVE the Word™, Jonah is likely a more realistic example for us to study as we are practicing, because when Jonah hears the word of God, he does the exact opposite! How does God work when we are not obedient to what we’ve heard, […]
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How do I listen with small children? Is listening simply reading the scriptures? If I read passage after passage, book after book of the Bible, have I really prayed if I have not discerned God as a Person there, and adjusted my life to what I have heard? Mary goes further than simply hearing or
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Lectio divina is Latin for divine reading. In the 12th century, a Carthusian monk named Guigo formally described and recorded the stages traditionally considered essential to practicing lectio divina: lectio, meditatio, oratio, and contemplatio. The LOVE the Word™ method retains the fundamental monastic practice and discipleship in scripture reading, meditation, and prayer that constitutes traditional
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Pope Francis called Mary the “mother of listening,” because she didn’t just hear the word (in our case read, also), she understood how to interpret it in light of her own relationships, circumstances, and habits. Modeled on the Annunciation, LOVE the Word is a new lectio method that invites our Blessed Mother to guide us
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The Name of the Lord is salvation, so that Jesus can promise, “anything you ask in my Name, I will do it” (Jn 14:13-14). The third commandment, “You shall not take the Name of the Lord God in vain,” is most often applied to cursing or similar abuse of His name, but in the Scriptures
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The Rosary is so powerful a prayer because it re-presents, or makes present again, the events of the Gospels each time and within the context it is prayed. “For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgment of the Gospel” (Lacordaire). Study Audio Scripture References for the Show
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Mary’s name is from the root for myrrh, meaning bitter. The tree sap that produces myrrh gathers in “tears,” when the bark is deeply scored, which are cherished and collected for their extreme value. Myrrh is the balsam of suffering, purification, and death, as it was used as an opiate to deaden pain, an antiseptic,
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What happens when a prayerful young peasant receives a whisper so powerful that she dares not tell it? She hugs the secret close. And it is incarnated. Going over and over the reality in her mind, she touches it timidly and unwraps it with equally unspeakable thrill each time. Looking at its significance from every
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We are not social workers. We are trying to be contemplatives in the heart the world. We have chosen to be carriers of God’s love. If the words of Jesus are true, ‘I was hungry, I was sick, I was naked, I was homeless, and you did it to me’ (Matthew 25:40), then we are
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