Although there is no elaborate method, a simple approach to lectio might be described as follows: 1. This is the response, it is God hearing him: I will glorify the Cross; it is the presence of divine glory because it is the supreme act of love. Lectio divina is still exists after more than fifteen centuries. Dòng Cát Minh, Phụ Tỉnh Thánh Giuse 95 Đường Số 38, Hiệp Bình Chánh, Thủ Đức, TP. In the Roman canon after consecration we have the prayer supra quae that mentions certain prefigurations of Christ, his priesthood and his sacrifice: Abel, the first martyr, with his lamb; Abraham, whose intention is to sacrifice his son Isaac, replaced by the lamb sent by God; and Melchizedek, High Priest of God Most High who brings out bread and wine. For the Letter to the Hebrews, the essential element of our being human is being compassionate, suffering with others: this is true humanity. This is the priest's mission: to combine, to link these two realities that appear to be so separate, that is, the world of God far from us, often unknown to the human being and our human world. Your Eminence, Dear Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood, It is always a very joyful as well as an important tradition for me to be able to begin Lent with my Presbyterium, the Priests of Rome. http://www.pitturalectiodivina.com L'esercizio costante della Pittura, nello Studio di Laura Grosso. Lectio. Lectio Divina: Lễ Cung Hiến Đền Thờ Thánh Phêrô và Phaolô ở Rôma, Lc 18:1-8. Let us pray the Lord that he grant us to understand this Mystery ever better, that he make us live this mystery ever better and thus to offer our help so that the world may be opened to God, so that the world may be redeemed. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. It was here that God himself pitched his tent in the world, and this tent, this new, true Jerusalem is at the same time on earth and in Heaven because this Sacrament, this sacrifice, is ceaselessly brought about among us and always arrives at the throne of Grace, at God's presence. In this regard, in my opinion, we must understand and learn how to accept more profoundly the sufferings of pastoral life, because priestly action is exactly this, it is mediation, it is entering into the mystery of Christ, it is communication with the mystery of Christ, very real and essential, existential and then sacramental. Thus people say: "he lied" "it is human"; "he stole" "it is human"; but this is not really being human. True humanity is real participation in the suffering of human beings. For Heaven is open and people do not offer some thing, rather, the human being becomes one with God and this is true worship. It enters as a mysterious figure, without father or mother the Letter to the Hebrews says it simply appears, and in this figure can be seen the true veneration of the Most High God, of the Creator of the Heavens and of the earth. This is a hypothesis; whereas here it is implied that the priest enter, like Christ, into human wretchedness, carry it with him, visit those who are suffering and look after them and, not only outwardly but also inwardly, take upon himself, recapitulate in himself the "passion" of his time, of his parish, of the people entrusted to his care. It is a process for which we pray every day: "May your will be done" And let us really pray the Lord to help us see closely that this is freedom and thus enter joyfully into this obedience and into "taking hold of" human beings in order to bring them by our own example, by our humility, by our prayer, by our pastoral action into communion with God. Moreover, we priests cannot withdraw to an Elysium. Accept Cookie. This is an unpopular word in our day. 97277580581 Paoloesse Comunicazione | Note legali. The Author of the Letter to the Hebrews says that Jesus prayed loudly, with cries and tears, to God who could save him from death and that in his total abandonment he is heard (cf. The priesthood thus appears in its purity and in its profound depth. The Holy Father drew inspiration for his "lectio divina" from the following passages from the Letter to the Hebrews: © Copyright 2010 - Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Here let us say: "No, it is not true, his prayer went unheard, he is dead". We learn two things from the Law, from the priesthood of Aaron, the Author of the Letter to the Hebrews says: if he is truly to be a mediator between God and man, a priest must be man. Via di Sant'Ambrogio, 3 - 00186 Roma - C.F. Tears: Jesus wept by the tomb of Lazarus, he was truly moved inwardly by the mystery of death, by the terror of death. Mariana Sofronie | 02 iulie 2018 In this very way he makes his sacrifice, he becomes the priest. Yet this is a solution that is not an exegesis but rather a betrayal of the text. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. "Lectio divina is an authentic source of Christian spirituality recommended by our Rule. Jesus, in bearing the human being, being human in himself and with himself, in conformity with God, in perfect obedience, that is, in the perfect conformation between the two wills, has redeemed us and redemption is always this process of leading the human will to communion with the divine will. I see three levels on which to understand these words. Lectio Divina: Chúa Nhật XXIX Thường Niên (A) Chủ Nhật 18 Tháng Mười, 2020. This is what the Letter to the Hebrews says: "Our priest... is seated at the right hand of the throne... in the sanctuary, the true tent which is set up... by the Lord" (cf. Is 52,7-10; Evr 1,1-6; In 1,1-18 „Şi Cuvântul s-a făcut trup şi a locuit între noi” (In 1,14). Bacaan hari ini: Roma 14:1-23 Bacaan setahun: Mazmur 73-74 “Sebab Kerajaan Allah bukanlah soal makanan dan minuman, tetapi soal kebenaran, damai sejahtera dan sukacita oleh Roh Kudus.” (Roma 14:17) Roma … On the Cross Jesus is raised above all the earth and attracts the earth to him; on the Cross the "Kabod" now appears, the true divine glory of God who loves even to the Cross and thus transforms death and creates the Resurrection. The Vatican council marked a return to the centrality of the Word of God and a consequence of this was the rediscovering of lectio divina . We know from the Gospels that Jesus cried out from the Cross: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Please confirm, if you accept our tracking cookies. A second term in this context is important. Instead of the word "obedience", as an anthropological keyword we would like the term "freedom". MEETING WITH THE PARISH PRIESTS OF THE DIOCESE OF ROME, "LECTIO DIVINA" OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI, Hall of Blessings Thursday, 18 February 2010. 4:1-11 • Mzm. One should choose a place free of distraction and a posture that is comfortable but conducive to prayer. It is always a very joyful as well as an important tradition for me to be able to begin Lent with my Presbyterium, the Priests of Rome. This is achieved and reinforced day after day with short prayers in which we reconnect with God and become, increasingly, men of God who live in his communion and can thus speak of God and lead people to God. Only in Christ is this need, this prerequisite of mediation fully brought about. C. Rossini e P.Sciadini, (Città del Vaticano, 2007), p.365- 377) Lời dẫn “Lời Chúa là nguồn mạch đầu tiên của mọi linh đạo Kitô giáo. Heb 5: 8-9). Lectio Divina adalah sebuah kalimat bahasa Latin untuk "pembacaan Ilahi" dan mewakili sebuah teknik monastik awal dari doa yang berlanjut dalam praktik di dalam kehidupan dan perutusan. Lectio Divina. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. It is a correct translation of the verb prosphèrein. And Jesus, who is the true subject of the Psalms, truly bears this cry of humanity to God, to God's ears: "help us and hear us!". 11 Untuk mereka yang mendengarkan Dia di situ, Yesus melanjutkan perkataan-Nya dengan suatu perumpamaan, sebab Ia sudah dekat Yerusalem dan mereka menyangka, bahwa Kerajaan Allah akan segera kelihatan. Thus the pagan world too experiences the expectation and profound prefiguration of Christ's mystery. Jn 1: 14). Then Melchizedek we shall return to this point who is a pagan. Precisely this should be said, with the following really stimulating text: "Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears" (Heb 5: 7). God created us and we are ourselves if we conform with his will; only in this way do we enter into the truth of our being and are not alienated. Lectio divina is distinct from scientific exegesis, study and interpretation, since it is centred on dialogue of faith between the reader and God, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It must subsequently be achieved, however, and continue as long as we live. Being a servant of the Eucharist is, therefore, a depth of the priestly mystery. Others must have at least an authorization from God, or in the Church's case, the Sacrament, that is they must introduce our being into the being of Christ, into divine being. Az olvasást követi a meditáció erről a kérdésről: mit mond a bibliai szöveg nekünk? Pittura Lectio Divina, Roma (Rome, Italy). Thus, with these fundamental elements, paganism too is on its way to Christ, and in a certain way, makes Christ's light present. Pinterest. Harnack, a liberal theologian, therefore wrote: "Here a not is missing", it must be written "He was not heard", and Bultmann accepted this interpretation. In speaking, in seeing people who were lowly, who had no pastor, he suffered with them. This article explores the insight of lectio divina as the ancient art of reading Scripture. That is, he must live true humanity, true humanism; he must be educated, have a human formation, human virtues; he must develop his intelligence, his will, his sentiments, his affections; he must be a true man, a man according to the will of the Creator, of the Redeemer, for we know that the human being is wounded and the question of "what man is" is obscured by the event of sin that hurt human nature even to the quick. We, as priests, are called to be ministers of this great Mystery, in the Sacrament and in life. And God answers: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again" (cf. Therefore emerging with Christ's help from this dark area in our nature so as to succeed in being truly human in the image of God is a lifelong process that must begin in our training for the priesthood. God has instructed us in the Bible not to perform “special kinds of process[es]” or “formula[s],”11 as Thomas Keating calls lectio divina, to induce mystical experiences (see Deuteronomy 18:9-11); thus, we believe ample warning about lectio divina is warranted. Practicing Lectio Divina. Lectio divina as one of the classic form of Christian Spirituality has been coming out from cloister to the common life of Christians. LECTIO DIVINA (A.M. Cànopi, “ Lectio Divina”, Enciclopedia della Preghiera, Ed. And, at the same time, since it is a risen Body, it unites us with God. After Abraham's victory over several kings, Melchizedek, King of Salem, of Jerusalem, appears and brings out bread and wine. This seems to me important in the celebration of the Eucharist: here is gathered together all human prayer, all human desire, all true human devotion, the true search for God that is fulfilled at last in Christ. It is a proclamation of the kingship of Jesus, of the fulfilment of the messianic expectation of the Old Testament which, at the bottom of their hearts, is shared by all men and women who await the true King who will bring justice, love and brotherhood. On this very day, in the Breviary, we prayed like this: God, where are you? This aspect of divine giving, of divine precedence, of divine action that we ourselves cannot bring about and our passivity being chosen and taken by the hand by God is a fundamental point we must enter into. Lastly. And then even more forcefully "In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear" (5: 7). Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. The other element is that the priest must be man, human in all senses. Tema a XXVI-a: „Isus învață în sinagoga din Nazaret” – propusă de Oficiul pentru Cateheză al Diecezei de Iași în seria întâlnirilor Lectio Divina din Timpul de peste an – prezintă atât sosirea lui Isus la Nazaret și reacția oamenilor, cât și modul în care Isus a primit criticile concetățenilor săi (). This means that Christ is the absolute newness of God and at the same time is present in the whole of history, through history, and history goes to encounter Christ. This is a religious word and expresses the act of offering human gifts to God, it expresses precisely the act of offering, of sacrifice. Lectio Divina 23.12.2020 – Ia Dinamai Yohanes Puncta 24.12.20: Dream of Me RIP Romo Heinrich Bollen SVD, Pernah Jadi Pastor Komunitas Katolik Berbahasa Jerman di Jakarta This is not only a reference to the hour of anguish on the Mount of Olives but sums up the whole history of the Passion that embraces Jesus' entire life. A cry of suffering humanity! All this is constantly brought about anew in the Eucharist. "LECTIO DIVINA" GIVEN BY HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI . We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. In other words the Letter to the Hebrews tells us that precisely by doing this Jesus was made a priest, and his priesthood was fulfilled. On the contrary, alienation occurs precisely by disregarding God's will, for in this way we stray from the plan for our existence; we are no longer ourselves and we fall into the void. 06.697001 - Per inviare un e-mail Torna su Questo sito utilizza i cookie per analizzare il traffico a fini statistici ed in forma anonima . Rabu (H) • Why. Tumblr. Therefore the priest is not a thing for a few hours but is fulfilled precisely in pastoral life, in his sufferings and his weaknesses, in his sorrows and also in his joys, of course. ©2021 - Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù all'Argentina - Roma - Chiesa del Gesù, Via degli Astalli, 16 - 00186 Roma Tel. L'important, però, no és el mètode, sinó aconseguir fer una «lectura orant» de la Paraula. it should be said that the Heavens are now open, worship is no longer enigmatic, in relative signs, but true. Our sacramental priestly ordination should be brought about and achieved existentially but also Christologically, and through precisely this, should bring the world with Christ and to Christ and, with Christ, to God: thus we really become priests, teleiothèis. Thus with these religious terms applied to the prayers and tears of Christ, it shows that Christ's tears, his anguish on the Mount of Olives, his cry on the Cross, all his suffering are nothing in comparison with his important mission. 5: 7). In a part of the Old Testament and especially in Qumran there are two separate lines of expectation: of the King and of the Priest. Tel: 06 69 70 01 (centralino) - 06 69 91 653 (emergenze), Il Papa al Gesù nella festa di S. Ignazio. 12 Maka Ia berkata: “Ada seorang bangsawan berangkat ke sebuah negeri yang jauh untuk dinobatkan menjadi … It is not sin because sin is never solidarity but always tears solidarity apart, it is living life for oneself instead of giving it. Fokus Lectio Divina bukan analisis teologis ayat-ayat Alkitab, tetapi melihat mereka dengan Kristus sebagai kunci maknanya. This uncommented and somewhat incomprehensible event appears only in Psalm 110 [109] as has been said, but it is clear that Judaism, Gnosticism and Christianity then wished to reflect profoundly on these words and created their interpretations. Lời Chúa nuôi dưỡng tương quan cá vị với Thiên Chúa … In this way the Letter to the Hebrews presents the theme of the priesthood of Christ, of Christ the priest, at three levels: the priesthood of Aaron, that of the Temple; Melchizedek; and Christ himself as the true priest. This is fundamental and the Son of God was made man precisely in order to be a priest, to be able to fulfil the priest's mission. Jesus prayed to be released from death, but he was not released, he died a very cruel death. We know that in his Prologue, St John calls the humanity of Jesus the tent of God, eskènosen en hemìn (cf. People forgive the brother, as in this case, the mother and the son, the friend: all the dreadfulness of death that destroys love, that destroys relationships, that is a sign of our finiteness, our poverty. 8: 1-2). 1K likes. Nor, in this sense, is our own priesthood limited to the religious act of Holy Mass in which everything is placed in Christ's hands but all of our compassion to the suffering of this world so remote from God is a priestly act, it is prosphèrein, it is offering up. At a first level the Greek text may be translated as: "he was redeemed from his anguish", and in this sense Jesus is heard. This would be being heard in the sense that God gives him the strength to bear the whole of this burden and so he was heard. "Not" does not appear in any of the manuscripts but "he was heard"; so we must learn to understand what "being heard" means, in spite of the Cross. antonvil.codina@gmail.com. Walaupun tidak terlalu tersebar luas dan dimaksudkan untuk mencapai kemanunggalan dengan Tuhan selain untuk memberikan pengertian spiritual dan kedamaian dari pengalaman ini. God has instructed us in the Bible not to perform “special kinds of process[es]” or “formula[s],”11 as Thomas Keating calls lectio divina, to induce mystical experiences (see Deuteronomy 18:9-11); thus, we believe ample warning about lectio divina is warranted. La lectio divina esprime la realtà della Chiesa come creatura Verbi: questa si fonda sulla Parola di Dio, nasce convocata dalla Parola e vive in essa. This means that not only does Jesus fulfil the Davidic promise, the expectation of the true King of Israel and of the world, but he also makes the promise of the real Priest come true. Lk 22: 43), in such a way that after the moment of anguish he was able to go, straight away and fearlessly towards his hour, as the Gospels describe it to us, especially that of John. "You have made us like sheep for slaughter" (Ps 44[43]: 11 [rsv]). The humanity of the priest does not correspond to the Platonic or Aristotelian ideal which claims that the true man is the one who lives in contemplation of the truth alone and so is blessed happy because he only has friendship with beautiful things, with divine beauty, while "the work" is left to others. Rather, he offered himself and made this offering of himself with the very compassion that transforms the suffering of the world into prayer and into a cry to the Father. You can also decline the tracking, so you can continue to visit our website without any data sent to third party services. In this way we increasingly become priests in communion with Christ. One does not enjoy one's own freedom, one's freedom is subjected to another's will, hence one is no longer free but determined by another, whereas self-determination, emancipation, would be true human existence. Obedience appears as an alienation, a servile attitude. Your Eminence, Your Excellencies and Dear Brothers, It gives me great joy to be with you — the Clergy of Rome — every year at the beginning of Lent and to start out with you on the Church’s journey to Easter. He must be man we shall come back to this point but he is unable, on his own, to make himself a mediator for God. With this "offered", prosphèrein, the Letter to the Hebrews says to us: this is the fulfilment of his priesthood, thus he brings humanity to God, in this way he becomes mediator, he becomes priest.