Visio divina

I’ve been training for a couple of years in becoming a Facilitator in Interspiritual Meditation – a universal seven-step practice that was developed as a direct descendant of the Snowmass Conferences that Father Thomas Keating hosted, bringing together teachers from different religions and sacred traditions and finding ways to practice spirituality together. I’ve been privileged […]

Lent is quickly approaching (I promise a round up post later in the week!) so I'm busy planning activities for my students to help them enter into the richness of the Season. On new thing I want to do with them is a gallery walk of Lenten art. I found a selection of art about the Paschal Mystery which are all in the public domain. I had them printed at an office supply store on 11x17 paper and will have them laminated at school. Each page only cost $.60, so for less than $5 I've got a…

As the Church calls us to celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary’s assumption into heaven, Jem Sullivan of The Catholic University of America offers visio divina reflections for three classic pieces of sacred art depicting Mary’s rise to heaven.

While Lectio Divina (link to lectio practice by teresa blythe) is a method of praying with scripture, Visio Divina (Latin for divine seeing) is a method for praying with images or other media.

Take a contemplative walk with us today on the grounds of Daylesford Abbey and see the Divine unfolding under your steps.

While Lectio Divina is a method of praying with scripture, Visio Divina (Latin for divine seeing) is a method for praying with images or other media.

The spiritual practice of “divine seeing” invites us to look deeply and to question. How might you view the world differently from a place of greater focus and openness to new perspectives?

In an age of e-books and screens, it may seem antiquated to create a handwritten, illuminated Bible. The Benedictine monks at Saint John's Abbey and Universi...

This text comes from the Gospel of John, 6:53, a text I never preached on as a Presbyterian minister. In fact, I pretty much avoided John 6 during my fifteen-plus years in Protestant ministry because I was uncomfortable with this very question: symbolic or literal.

Curiosity is a sin. But what about our inborn desire to understand things – is that all bad? No, said Thomas Aquinas: it comes from God and can lead us to him. Aquinas had a name for it: studiousness.