Abbreviations and Introduction

Abbreviations and Introduction

With these few elementary notes on lectio divina, we hope to have provided readers with an opportunity to renew or develop a taste for a way of reading Scripture which is as old as the church itself, and which has deep roots in Judaism. I don’t think we’ve said anything new. We’ve simply made a quick review of the patristic and monastic traditions, which made lectio divina a form of daily nourishment within the context of praying the opus Dei, the Liturgy of the Word…