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Lectio Divina Praying the Scriptures in Lent and Holy Week 2011 Year AContentsIntroduction .................................................................................................2Lectio Divina and The Refl ection ..................................................................4Lectio Divina ................................................................................................5Lectio Divina Alone .......................................................................................8Lectio Divina Together ................................................................................10The Washpool… images for Lent, 2011 ......................................................12Ash Wednesday .........................................................................................191 st Sunday of Lent Year A ...........................................................................222 nd Sunday of Lent Year A ...........................................................................263 rd Sunday of Lent Year A ...........................................................................304 th Sunday of Lent Year A ...........................................................................345 th Sunday ofLent Year A ............................................................................39Passion Sunday .........................................................................................43Holy Week .................................................................................................51The Easter Triduum ....................................................................................53Holy Thursday ....................................................................................54Good Friday ........................................................................................56Holy Saturday .....................................................................................61Easter Sunday .....................................................................................62Prayer ........................................................................................................66Footnotes ...................................................................................................671
Lectio Divina Praying the Scriptures in Lent and Holy Week 2011 Year AIntroductionThe signifi cance of the ancient tradition of prayerfulmediation on the scriptures, lectio divina, was evident inthe 2008 Synod on the Word and has become a favouritetheme of Pope Benedict XVI. In his 2010 post-synodalapostolic exhortation, Verbum Domini, he states clearlythat more prayerful and spiritual reading of scripturewill enhance both our appreciation of the Bible andour participation in the Church’s liturgical life (86).In the lectio refl ection for the Third Sunday of Lent weread, “For years we knew only of a ‘sunburnt country’withering away into desert because of lack of rain. Thenthis year the fl ood gates opened and what was parched,suddenly experienced the downpour of water.” As apeople of this ‘great South Land’, hope in the midst oftragedies invites us to move forward with confi dence.I offer three perspectives on this Christian virtuesuggested by the spiritual writer, Richard Heffern.• The novelist Barbara Kingsolver wrote: “Thevery least you can do in your life is to fi gure outwhat you hope for. And the most you can dois live inside that hope. Not admire it from adistance but live right in it, under its roof.”• The second comes from the former president of the CzechRepublic, Vaclav Havel – “Hope is not the convictionthat something will turn out well, but the certainty thatsomething makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”• Those familiar with a popular television series, Xena theWarrior, will recall Xena observing that “Hope has beenand always will be safe. It’s inside every one of us.”Hope is a virtue well worth keeping in mind as wejourney through the weeks of Lent with God’s Wordas our guiding light. Because of Easter’s reality and itspromise, we are people characterised by hope. It is in2
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