...and a most helpful teaching session on this topic as part of a Lent Course. Reading the Scriptures, pondering them, praying them, allowing God to speak to us through them...
After a helpful introduction to the whole subject , the 23rd Psalm was read, and then we were silent...
Among much else, one thing I learned about this Psalm tonight was its Eucharistic message. Reading it - I mean, really reading it - you notice that the first half speaks about the Lord. And then in the second half he is actually addressed. I was pondering this: Dominus/ Domine...and then some one else mentioned, as if it was something quite obvious to all, the Eucharistic theme of the second half ("You have prepared a table for me..."). And it dawned that that whole of this Psalm, taken together, is like the Mass: the Liturgy of the Word and then the Liturgy of the Eucharist...
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Hi Joanna
Isn't it wonderful how the Lord speaks to us uniquely through the Word at different times whenever we make the time to open our hearts to listen?!
Lectio Divina is a wonderful way to access those special messages.
Thus of course if you do another Lectio with Psalm 23 - or if someone else does - one might well find a different message from God; reflecting the fact that God's word is alive.
Thank you for sharing!
God bless,
Sylvia F-M(you may remember me from one or two of your Catholic London walks)
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