Lectio Matters: Before the Burning Bush

by Mary Margaret Funk O.S.B., Laurence O'Keefe (Foreword by)

Overview

Lectio divina is a way of praying by sustained immersion into a revelatory text. While Scripture is the classic place of encounter with God, the text could also be the book of life or the book of nature.

InLectio Matters, respected spiritual guide Meg Funk accompanies the reader in exploring the various levels of lectio divina as taught by the ancient church writers and by sharing her own long experience. By means of this wisdom both ancient and new, lectio divina can become our burning bush, a real encounter with the living God, in which we take off our sandals and bow our brow to the ground.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814635056
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	02/21/2013
Series:	Matters
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Mary Margaret Funk is a Benedictine nun of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana. From 1994 through 2004, she served as executive director of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, which fosters dialogue among monastics of the world's religions. In addition to the volumes of the Matters Series, she is the author of Islam Is . . . : An Experience of Dialogue and Devotion and Into the Depths: A Journey of Loss and Vocation.

Table of Contents

Contents
Iconographer’s Preface   xi
     Rebecca Cown
Foreword   xix
     Laurence O’Keefe, OSB
Introduction: Lectio Matters: Before the Burning Bush   xxiii
Chapter 1: The Text of the Book of Jonah: The Actual Reading of the Tex  t 1
Chapter 2: The Literal Voice Studied by the Logical Senses of the Mind   7
Chapter 3: The Meaning of the Text: The Symbolic Voice Is Grasped by the Intuitive Senses   25
Chapter 4: The Moral Voice: Heard and Heeded by the Personal Senses   51
Chapter 5: More on How We Get There from Here: Further Teaching on the Moral Dimension   91 
Chapter 6: Encountering God: The Mystical Voice Is Received by the Spiritual Senses   172
Appendix: Catechesis on Confession   201
Afterword   208
     Michael Casagram, OCSO
Notes   211
Select Bibliography   232