“This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.”
~Joshua 1:8
During this second step of lectio divina, we ponder His Word (aka meditatio/meditation). Our intellect is engaged. We ask: how and why? What has caught our attention during our slow reading? What is the text saying to me? What verse consoles you? What verse wrestles with you? Here is how His Word takes root deep within us. It is how we touch His Sacred Heart.
“Christians owe it to themselves to develop the desire to meditate regularly, lest they come to resemble the three first kinds of soil in the parable of the sower. But a method is only a guide; the important thing is to advance, with the Holy Spirit, along the one way of prayer: Christ Jesus.”
CCC 2707
“Meditation engages thought, imagination, emotion, and desire…Christian prayer tries above all to meditate on the mysteries of Christ, as in lectio divina or the rosary.” CCC 2708
~Luke 2:19
“But Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.”
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