Lectio Divina ~ Fr Cassian Folsom, OSB

[@AppealToHeaven]

THIS is the explanation of Lectio I've been longing for. Thank you!

[@philipnannie1466]

The best explanation and practice of lectio I've ever encountered. Thank you.

[@zachm.6572]

Fr. Cassian’s words about Christian meditation being the memorization of scripture has made my rosary meditations so much more enjoyable and easier.

[@luciadeloach9932]

This is BY FAR the best explanation of Lectio Divina I have ever heard!! Thank you!!!!

[@anitapoirier1815]

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[@germain1947]

This is s beautiful priest who lives his life with a Christ so honest so holy God Bless him and may Mother Mary wrap her mantle of love around him.

This is absolutely beautiful. It moved me to tears. Thank you Father, thank you for the bottom of my heart.

[@pythonhighadder7982]

1) Lecture, 2) meditate, 3) oration, 4) contemplation: a ladder of the monk. Nice thank you. Therefore, sounds like all college classes to me: 1st lecture, then we make it our own, we then give a presentation before contemplation of our grade.

[@lincolncity9]

I could listen to Father Cassian all day!

[@gray_mara]

What a wonderful conference and a wonderful witness. Thank you for sharing your wisdom, and showing us the way.

[@Howsoonisnow2009]

So incredible. Thank SF and Fr. Cassian

[@Rugbylacroose4life]

God Bless you Fr! Thank you! Very, very, very helpful!

[@akionataito5458]

GOD BLESS you all for your beautiful and great work.

[@juanantoniorodasgramajo4561]

God bless Dom Cassian Folsom OSB

[@chiratidzofmasawi8234]

Thank you for this instruction Father🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Paulkazey1]

Wonderful voice.

[@CM-8183]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@johnchadil2932]

Thank God!

[@mangafq8]

Oh Father, I'm guessing your memory now is better than most young people's anyway. And as you are from MA, I hope you were able to see family when you were there. A real trip down memory lane no doubt, speaking of memory. 🙏🙏🙏

[@joanl.7543]

Many thanks for this.

[@flaviapts9180]

Deo gratias!

[@savingsarah9456]

Thank you so much for this. Just ordered 2 of the books he mentioned. 💖🙏💖

[@dianemarie8873]

📖🙏❤🔥 love this

[@toniabarbin4441]

Please pray for me. I am losing my soul.

[@lisakrische3732]

Until you can get a priest to help you, get Fr. Ripperger's ' Deliverance Prayers for the Laity'. There are many healing prayers in this blessed book.

[@luisframirez2]

@tonia How are you coming along? Hope all is well. My prayers have been with you since I read your post.

[@ThePeterter]

I absolutly agreed with Lucia, the best explanation I've heard. Nonetheles I have some questions. It's supposed to go through the four steps in every verse or so? And what about contemplation? I would say Fr. Cassian did prayer and contemplation at the same time. So, we could have various moments of contemplation during the lectio divina, right? At first, I thought tha maybe the idea was to get just one idea, or one answer, if you like, as if it was getting one resolution, but this is not the idea, right?

[@gray_mara]

There is no set rule for how often to pause or go through each step. Even for the same person, different words will strike you at different times. Read slowly, to really take in the words. When your mouth is full, pause to chew. Sometimes you will take big mouthfuls, sometimes just a little nibble. There is no greater or lesser virtue in how many verses you take in at a time. Then, pause to talk to God about what you have read. In contemplation, we are often silent, caught wordless and held by God until He chooses to release us. In a sense, contemplatio gives God space to speak. It doesn't matter if you get one idea or a dozen to take away, but remember that it's more important to let the idea sink, not just into your mind, but into your soul. When we get these ideas, we have to let them do their work, and form our heart and spirit and soul ever closer to Christ.

[@jackieann5494]

LOVE this but listening on ear buds and the commercial frequency is brutal ! Does that help Sensus Fidelum ? If so , I'll just listen to the adds.

[@CatholicGaming]

What is the song at the beginning named?

[@simon5542]

If you mean the very beginning, it is a hymn called "O lux beata Trinitas" - hope this helps! Many blessings.

[@nathanhart6218]

It is a hymn written by St. Ambrose called "O Lux Beata Trinitas" according to one of the chant meoldies from throughout the year. It is sung in Vespers, I am not sure exactly which vespers and am not sure which melody as it changes depending on liturgical season and rank of the feasts. Hope that at least gives some direction.

[@barbwellman6686]

"O TRINITY of blessed Light, O Unity of sovereign might, as now the fiery sun departs, shed Thou Thy beams within our hearts. To Thee our morning song of praise, to Thee our evening prayer we raise; Thee may our glory evermore in lowly reverence adore. All laud to God the Father be; all praise, Eternal Son, to Thee; all glory, as is ever meet, to God the Holy Paraclete.

[@barbwellman6686]

St. Ambrose 340-397AD

[@TheNarrowGate101]

Barb Wellman thank you for sharing that

[@lodewijklangeweg742]

When you speak to yourself mentally, silently, like in an internal dialogue, don't you hear your own thoughts sounding in your mind as your own voice but without sound? As who's voice do the following thoughts of God in human appearance sound in you when you read them? "I am the light of the world." and "You are the light of the world." "You are the light of the world" might be thought by God in us when a neighbor comes to mind. Which is loving your neighbor as yourself, the second commandments that is like the first, the first being on how to allow God to love Himself even in what seems to be but our human appearance, but which is really also God's. "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s." ~1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NKJV) Because it might be very upsetting to many to hear one say "I am the light of the world, and you are the light of the world" it might be wise to not say it out loud. Reason the mystics of old cited in the video practiced it silently. "Secretum meum mihi." Or would you say these following thoughts of God in human appearance out loud in the presence of others? "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me." ~John 10:27 Yet not only in the minds of others might accusing thought come up thrown at one like painfully hard hitting stones when practicing Lectio Divina that way, but also in one's own mind. "Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?” The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.” ~John 10:31-33 The "Jews" are a parable for that subconscious part in us that knows the greatness of God, but has not yet recognized that God's greatness is that He is willing to experience everything we experience. Even though for God to experience being but a human instead of Who He really is is a descend into hell and a crucifixion. And still He was and is lovingly willing to undergo experiencing being each and and every one of us. Including all our moral sufferings caused by our sins (missers) which came with the appearance in the flesh, even though in God there is no sin, yet He is come in the appearance of the sinful flesh. To symbolize as a parable the innate innocence of God even in the apearance of the sinful flesh, in human appearance God has been called a "lamb", a young sheep, and we who in whom He is increasing in divine stature, wisdom, and favor towards Himself as God and as a human and also towards Himself in our neighbors are called "sheep." As our example to understand the spiritual development in us: "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men." ~Luke 2:52 (NKJV) May the Anointed Savior Who after giving His Life for you by experiencing being you as a human instead of being God, that also you would have His Life and joy, may increasingly have His Life and joy in you, and thus your Life and joy be made complete, awoken from the dream of death, and lifted from "this body of death" to God's eternal glory. God is our life, and not experiencing God is not experiencing our life but rather a constant dying disguised as "life." Read and listen to the voice with which God is thinking or speaking these thoughts and words to those who believe God loves us so much that He is even willing to undergo being as dead in us as if in a sepulcher while you read them: "Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man." ~John 5:25 (NKJV) Let us not judge ourselves nor our neighbors by human appearances, no matter who ugly, guilty and convincing the appearances may seem to be. Neither let us judge by the human appearances goodness, for no one is good except one: God. “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is God." ~Mark 10:18 (NKJV) Any human appearance of goodness is a reflection of God's goodness. Listen one more time with your soul and hear as who's voice these divine words sound while you read them: “I who speak to you am He ” ~John 4:26 (NKJV) This is how God's disciples who have heard His voice practice Divine Reading, Learning, and Teaching: Lectio Divina.

[@MikeJames-kt5dw]

I can't memorize scripture with few exceptions. I do not find help reading out loud but prefer to read in silence. I did lection divina and learned and did it all in less than 8 minutes. I have autism and an IQ of 142. I can pick up things very easily. Maybe for people with normal IQ you need 15 but my mind runs fast and works fast.