Today the Churches remember

In the First Covenant, ancient Israel prayed the Word and used the Word ta pray. You can see these communal practices described in chapter 8 of Nehemiah. This method of explaining and praying the W...

For your lectio divina try to choose a time of day and a place which will provide you with some external silence. This is the necessary condition for interior silence. The Master is here and ...

Today the Churches remember

When you want to immerse yourself in this prayerful reading, your first job is to select a place where you can be quiet and alone, where you can pray to your Father in secret (Mt 6:5-6) and maybe e...

Today the Churches remember

God calls you to the silent solitude in which the two of you can converse in prayer. God wants to speak to your heart. The Bible speaks of the heart as the center of the human person, the dee...

Take the Bible in your hands and hold it in front of you with the same reverence you would give to the Body of Christ. Make an epiclesis, an invocation of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit directs the Wo...

Now open the Bible and read the text. Never open if at random. The Word of God deserves to be eaten whole, not nibbled at casually. Follow the cycle of readings in the lectionary with an open mind,...

What does it mean, to meditate? This is not always easy to say. Certainly, it means to deepen the message you have read and to find out what God wants to communicate to you. You must do some work, ...

Now speak to God. Respond to God's invitations: to the calls, the inspirations, the messages God has given you by the Holy Spirit's power in the Word. Do you see that you have been welcomed...

The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple On February 2 all of the Christian churches celebrate the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple Lectionary

Oscar (ca. 800-865) monk and pastor Oscar (Anskar), a Benedictine monk who served as bishop of Hamburg and Bremen, Germany, died in Bremen in 86

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The forty-nine elders of Scetis (d. 444) monks and martyrs Today the Coptic Church commemorates the forty-nine martyrs of Scetis

V International Liturgical Conference BAPTISTERYBose, May 31 - June 2, 2007Monastery of BoseNational Office for the Church's Cultural Heritage of the Italian Bishops' Conference<...

Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705) Lutheran pastor In 1705 Philipp Jakob Spener, a Lutheran preacher and an advocate of pietism in Germany, died in Berlin

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Barsanuphius and John of Gaza (6th cent.) monks Today the Orthodox churches commemorate Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet, monks who lived in the Gaza desert

Neomartyrs and Confessors of Russia and Ukraine (20th cent.) On February 7 of the year 1918, Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev and Halyc, was killed by Bolshevic revolutionaries Lectionary

Severus of Antioch (ca. 459-538) monk and pastor Today the East Syrian Church commemorates Severus, a monk and patriarch of Antioch who lived in the 6th century

Maron (d. ca. 410) monk Maron, a monk who left an indelible imprint on the history of the Eastern churches, although little is known about his life

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Scholastica (ca. 480-ca. 547) nun Today the Eastern and Western churches commemorate Scholastica, the sister of Benedict of Norcia 

Benedict of Aniane (ca. 750-821) monk Today the Western monastic calendar commemorates Benedict of Aniane, a reformer of monastic life who lived in the Carolingian era

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Jordan of Saxony (ca.1185-1237) priest Today the Dominicans remember Jordan of Saxony, who was Dominic of Guzman's biographer

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Cirrus, monk, and John (d. ca. 303) martyrs Today the Coptic Church commemorates the monk Cirrus and his brother John Lectionary

The seven founders of the Order of the Servants of Mary (13th cent.) religious They were friends and belonged to a group of lay faithful who were particularly devoted to the Virgin Mary and dedicat...