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The Mind of Christ: Meditation, Contemplation, and the Discipline of Love (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Ilia Delio’s call to train the mind through meditation and contemplation, this Lectio Divina explores how Jesus himself models the discipline of love — bracketing all his good works with solitary prayer, and culminating in the obediential consent of Gethsemane. A reflection on how the cycle of solitude, surrender, and outpouring becomes…
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Oratio Divina: Every Breath A Prayer
This contemplative poem by Robert Van Valkenburgh invites readers to cultivate an inner sanctuary where God alone dwells—a place of silence, light, and peace amid a noisy and violent world. Drawing on biblical and monastic imagery of desert, cave, and secret room, the reflection emphasizes continual communion with the Lord, where every breath becomes…