"Prayer and meditation have an important part to play in opening up new ways and new horizons. If your prayer is the expression of a deep and grace-inspired desire for newness of life - and not the mere blind attachment to what has always been familiar and safe - God will act in us and through us to Renew the Church by preparing, in prayer, what we cannot yet imagine or understand. In this way our prayer and faith today will be oriented toward the future which we ourselves may never see fully realized on earth."
Thomas Merton - "Contemplation in a world of Action"
From here I start. The voice I have listened to with the ear of my heart, has echoed in my soul to share Lectio Divina with the Church Universal. Praying that through the Holy Spirit - and by way of my personal Vocation as an Oblate of St. Benedict living this out in the world and participating in a wider community of Lay Cistercians, my work will somehow prepare the soil for Lectio Divina to be received by the souls of the Church.
Through my sacred reading (lectio) and my spiritual practice of writing (scriptio) I pray to share this ancient monastic practice with others; proclaiming our call as Christians to follow in the Way of Christ by way of our Ora et Labora (prayer and work).
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Michael Trent Thompson
