{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Lectio the Liturgy","home_page_url":"https://lectiotheliturgy.fireside.fm","feed_url":"https://lectiotheliturgy.fireside.fm/json","description":"Give a woman a phrase, and she's going to want a visual to go with it.\r\n\r\nThat's how it all started. You know those times - when you ask God to show you something amazing in Scripture. One weekend during Easter of 2016, the only thing that popped off the page of Scripture was \"so that\".\r\n\r\nSo what was I supposed to do with that? \"Nothing\" was my first reaction because really, what kind of conjunction is that, anyway? Next week, another \"so that\" appeared. THEN, I went home and started diagramming Scripture, and I found myself, each day, diagramming a new verse. This method made the Scripture, and the Prayers of the Liturgy come alive. (p.s. \"So that\" is not like an equal sign.)\r\n\r\nI am a wife, mom, and a convert to the Catholic Faith. 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We only need to make a heart-felt acceptance of them.\n\nLearn more at LectioTheLiturgy.com","content_html":"<p>Do we long for unity and peace in the Church? Sometimes it seems like there is sand between not only members of the church, but between the members and the Church.</p>\n\n<p>The gifts of unity and peace are ours through the one sacrifice offered once for all. 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He always and forever offers Himself to the Father, the church, and the world, and we are called to go and do likewise.\n\nLearn more at my website, LectioTheLiturgy.com","content_html":"<p>Riddle: What can you offer at mass that is something you brought with you and doesn’t fit in your purse or wallet? </p>\n\n<p>It’s you! When we make ourselves and oblation, or offering present to God, we hold up our part of the sacrifice of Jesus. 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However, there is more to the action than just taking. We need to take and receive. It takes both for us to be changed.\n\nWhile the prayer has a different intention, you may notice the same offering in the prayers of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, “Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ…”\n\nLearn more at LectioTheLiturgy.com","content_html":"<p>In the Sacrament of the Eucharist, we get back what we offer to the Father - which is Jesus. However, there is more to the action than just taking. We need to take and receive. 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Unless God gives us divine revelation, we may never be able to grasp it all. \n\nHowever, whether we understand it or not, we are made to live in the midst of the Trinity, to grow and flourish in the love that is the divine life of God.","content_html":"<p>What do we do with a Sunday to celebrate one of the greatest mysteries of the Church - the Trinity? 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It was a part of his plan all along, and when I learned about Pentecost, how it was first mentioned in the Old Testament, just maybe the Disciples had a clue.\n\nThe original Jewish Holy Day of Pentecost also celebrated the day that God gave Moses the Torah on Mt. Sinai. Notice how God’s glory appeared to both Moses and the Disciples - in fire.\n\nSend your fire today, Lord!","content_html":"<p>God did not spin the wheel and see what day Pentecost would land on! It was a part of his plan all along, and when I learned about Pentecost, how it was first mentioned in the Old Testament, just maybe the Disciples had a clue.</p>\n\n<p>The original Jewish Holy Day of Pentecost also celebrated the day that God gave Moses the Torah on Mt. Sinai. 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The Gospel tells us of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Jesus turns dazzling white and Elijah and Moses appear on the mountain. We also find heaven on earth in the Prayer over the Offering.\n\nAs we receive these glorious mysteries, we make thanksgiving to you, O Lord, for allowing us while still on earth to be partakers even now of the things of heaven. Through Christ our Lord.\n\nWe receive. In this prayer we learn that thanksgiving should be in our minds and on our tongues as we receive glorious mysteries.\n\nOur glorious mysteries are the bread and wine, that through the working of the Holy Spirit become the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ. This is where the natural world meets the supernatural. While still on earth, we are partakers, or sharers, of things of heaven.\n\nTo receive, or \"percipientes\" in the Latin form of the prayer, means to take to oneself or to take in wholly.  What happens when human nature receives the Divine? The word that comes to mind is fruit.\n\nMary received the words of Gabriel when she said “May it be done to me.” Human met the Divine and Jesus came into the world. (Luke 1 and 2)\n\nIn Acts 1:8 Jesus tells the Apostles that when they receive the Holy Spirit they will also receive His power. They would be witnesses to the work that He wants to do through them. They chose to receive.\n\nHow do you change when you receive the Divine? Just like Mary and the Apostles, we, too, should bear fruit.\n\nIf you want to see more fruit in your life, I propose that you re-think the prayer, fasting, and almsgiving of Lent. Yes, these are things that we do, but the true purpose of doing these things is to receive. The Christian life is based on receiving.\n\nJesus died and rose again so our sins could be forgiven. We only need to receive his forgiveness.\n\nOur relationship with God also requires us to be in a position to receive. He doesn’t want our hands busy doing, trying to earn his love, he wants them open to receive. Our prayer, fasting, and almsgiving should put us in a position to receive.\n\nThe Holy Sacrifice of the Mass also gives us the opportunity to receive. At every mass, the natural world is overshadowed by the Divine. As we receive the glorious mysteries, our hearts should be filled with thanksgiving as God gives us, while still on earth, a taste of heaven.\n\nThank you for praying with me,\nJulie","content_html":"<p>In our scripture readings for the Second Sunday of Lent, we see heaven on earth. The Gospel tells us of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Jesus turns dazzling white and Elijah and Moses appear on the mountain. We also find heaven on earth in the Prayer over the Offering.</p>\n\n<p>As we receive these glorious mysteries, we make thanksgiving to you, O Lord, for allowing us while still on earth to be partakers even now of the things of heaven. Through Christ our Lord.</p>\n\n<p>We receive. In this prayer we learn that thanksgiving should be in our minds and on our tongues as we receive glorious mysteries.</p>\n\n<p>Our glorious mysteries are the bread and wine, that through the working of the Holy Spirit become the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ. This is where the natural world meets the supernatural. While still on earth, we are partakers, or sharers, of things of heaven.</p>\n\n<p>To receive, or &quot;percipientes&quot; in the Latin form of the prayer, means to take to oneself or to take in wholly. <br> What happens when human nature receives the Divine? The word that comes to mind is fruit.</p>\n\n<p>Mary received the words of Gabriel when she said “May it be done to me.” Human met the Divine and Jesus came into the world. (Luke 1 and 2)</p>\n\n<p>In Acts 1:8 Jesus tells the Apostles that when they receive the Holy Spirit they will also receive His power. They would be witnesses to the work that He wants to do through them. They chose to receive.</p>\n\n<p>How do you change when you receive the Divine? Just like Mary and the Apostles, we, too, should bear fruit.</p>\n\n<p>If you want to see more fruit in your life, I propose that you re-think the prayer, fasting, and almsgiving of Lent. Yes, these are things that we do, but the true purpose of doing these things is to receive. The Christian life is based on receiving.</p>\n\n<p>Jesus died and rose again so our sins could be forgiven. We only need to receive his forgiveness.</p>\n\n<p>Our relationship with God also requires us to be in a position to receive. He doesn’t want our hands busy doing, trying to earn his love, he wants them open to receive. Our prayer, fasting, and almsgiving should put us in a position to receive.</p>\n\n<p>The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass also gives us the opportunity to receive. At every mass, the natural world is overshadowed by the Divine. As we receive the glorious mysteries, our hearts should be filled with thanksgiving as God gives us, while still on earth, a taste of heaven.</p>\n\n<p>Thank you for praying with me,<br>\nJulie</p>","summary":"When we meet the divine\r\nGoing to mass isn’t a horizontal experience. It is a vertical one. While still on earth, we are allowed to be partakers of heaven.\r\nBetter yet, there’s nothing we have to do to earn it. All we have to do is receive. As I reflected on it, the basis of the Christian life is about receiving.\r\nSure, we are called to give, but how can we give what we haven’t received?","date_published":"2023-03-01T12:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/15213e8a-16ab-403c-8f20-21fd939d0b88/f563e008-6785-459d-ab80-ae3a5b474458.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":3828923,"duration_in_seconds":233}]},{"id":"55f66740-38e8-4e21-b744-4386b57a8e7e","title":"1st Sunday of Lent - Prayer After Communion","url":"https://lectiotheliturgy.fireside.fm/1","content_text":"This week we Lectio the Liturgy with the Prayer after Communion for the first Sunday of Lent.\n\nRenewed now with heavenly bread, by which faith is nourished, hope increased, and charity strengthened, we pray, O Lord, that we may learn to hunger for Christ, the true and living Bread, and strive to live by every word which proceeds from your mouth. Through Christ our Lord.\n\nThe prayer shows another facet of the beauty of receiving Communion. When we receive the Eucharist, we are renewed and gain greater capacity for the theological virtues, faith, hope, and charity. God gives us these virtues, which enable us to act as His children. We can’t earn them; they are a gift.\n\nTo have faith nourished, hope increased, and charity strengthened is a blessing that I haven’t thought much about when I receive communion. Perhaps it’s because there’s so much in this Sacrament: spiritual food, the Body of Christ, our own identity as the mystical body of Christ, and now greater virtues is added to the list. I’m quite confident that we won’t have the complete understanding of the Eucharist until we get to Heaven, when we won’t need to receive communion anymore.\n\nIn the next part of the prayer, we ask God that we may learn to hunger for Christ, the true and living bread. These words mean exactly what they say: learn to desire to eat genuine, alive, bread.\n\nIt is an interesting thought, isn’t it? True and living, genuine and alive bread. Heavenly bread. The Eucharist. Bread we can’t live without. Bread we should hunger for.\n\nHave you ever had a realization that you can’t wait for the weekend just so you can go to mass? Have you ever felt a hunger for Christ? It’s not a typical physical hunger. This is the type of hunger that makes us realize that we have a desire that only God can satisfy.\n\nThis is not the hunger that Satan tempted Jesus with when he met Jesus in the desert. Jesus had fasted for 40 days and Satan is sure he’s wanting to eat. He approaches Jesus with this challenge: change the stone into bread. In his response, Jesus’s quotes Moses in Deuteronomy 8:3. Before entering into the Promised Land, Moses gave the Israelites a review of their desert wanderings. He reminds them that during their journey, God caused them to be hungry and fed them with manna to teach them that \"man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”\n\nWe rely on physical food, but do we remind ourselves that we also rely on spiritual food? Just like the Israelites, we, too, live on the word of God, the Scriptures. We also live on the Word of God, his Son, the Eucharist.\n\nPerhaps the challenge lies in learning to desire God. St. Augustine wrote, \"The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.” (Tract 4, Tractates on the first letter of John)\n\nLife is filled with desires, some are good for us and some are not. St. Augustine adds that when we continue to desire, we shall be filled. We just need to pay attention to what it is we desire.  Jesus was tempted and won the battle. May we trust in his grace for our own victory to desire the word and the Word that comes from the mouth of God.\n\nThanks for praying with me,\nJulie","content_html":"<p>This week we Lectio the Liturgy with the Prayer after Communion for the first Sunday of Lent.</p>\n\n<p>Renewed now with heavenly bread, by which faith is nourished, hope increased, and charity strengthened, we pray, O Lord, that we may learn to hunger for Christ, the true and living Bread, and strive to live by every word which proceeds from your mouth. Through Christ our Lord.</p>\n\n<p>The prayer shows another facet of the beauty of receiving Communion. When we receive the Eucharist, we are renewed and gain greater capacity for the theological virtues, faith, hope, and charity. God gives us these virtues, which enable us to act as His children. We can’t earn them; they are a gift.</p>\n\n<p>To have faith nourished, hope increased, and charity strengthened is a blessing that I haven’t thought much about when I receive communion. Perhaps it’s because there’s so much in this Sacrament: spiritual food, the Body of Christ, our own identity as the mystical body of Christ, and now greater virtues is added to the list. I’m quite confident that we won’t have the complete understanding of the Eucharist until we get to Heaven, when we won’t need to receive communion anymore.</p>\n\n<p>In the next part of the prayer, we ask God that we may learn to hunger for Christ, the true and living bread. These words mean exactly what they say: learn to desire to eat genuine, alive, bread.</p>\n\n<p>It is an interesting thought, isn’t it? True and living, genuine and alive bread. Heavenly bread. The Eucharist. Bread we can’t live without. Bread we should hunger for.</p>\n\n<p>Have you ever had a realization that you can’t wait for the weekend just so you can go to mass? Have you ever felt a hunger for Christ? It’s not a typical physical hunger. This is the type of hunger that makes us realize that we have a desire that only God can satisfy.</p>\n\n<p>This is not the hunger that Satan tempted Jesus with when he met Jesus in the desert. Jesus had fasted for 40 days and Satan is sure he’s wanting to eat. He approaches Jesus with this challenge: change the stone into bread. In his response, Jesus’s quotes Moses in Deuteronomy 8:3. Before entering into the Promised Land, Moses gave the Israelites a review of their desert wanderings. He reminds them that during their journey, God caused them to be hungry and fed them with manna to teach them that &quot;man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”</p>\n\n<p>We rely on physical food, but do we remind ourselves that we also rely on spiritual food? Just like the Israelites, we, too, live on the word of God, the Scriptures. We also live on the Word of God, his Son, the Eucharist.</p>\n\n<p>Perhaps the challenge lies in learning to desire God. St. Augustine wrote, &quot;The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.” (Tract 4, Tractates on the first letter of John)</p>\n\n<p>Life is filled with desires, some are good for us and some are not. St. Augustine adds that when we continue to desire, we shall be filled. We just need to pay attention to what it is we desire.  Jesus was tempted and won the battle. May we trust in his grace for our own victory to desire the word and the Word that comes from the mouth of God.</p>\n\n<p>Thanks for praying with me,<br>\nJulie</p>","summary":"I tell ya, the Roman Missal never disappoints. As I meditated on this prayer, the Prayer after Communion for the first Sunday of Lent, I didn’t know what to pray for first: greater virtues or greater desire for the true and living bread.","date_published":"2023-02-22T23:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/15213e8a-16ab-403c-8f20-21fd939d0b88/55f66740-38e8-4e21-b744-4386b57a8e7e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":4844520,"duration_in_seconds":291}]}]}