A Day With Jesus: Meg’s Chapter II
Being Seen

You are well documented by the four Gospels and much of Paul’s testimonials.
You were seen in Jerusalem, Galilee, Jericho, Bethlehem and in-between as you made many journeys in your public life of teaching, healing and be-friending the poor, the least and the sinners of every kind.

Meg: This little book A Day with Jesus seems to be out of print. I will take my time to enter it chapter by chapter and then put my parallel meditation the next day's posting. A Day With Jesus by a monk of the Eastern Church. Translated by a monk of the Western Church. Comes from the French Presence du Christ (Editions de Chevetogne, Belgium) Library of Congress Cateloge Card Number: 64-23931 is published by Desclee Company New York 1964.
I have some travels coming up so I'll not be able to do this everyday in the next week or so, but will continue posting as I have time and space.

A Day With Jesus: Chapter II
For a commemoration of Me
(Do this for a commemoration of Me Luke 22:19)

Lord, at the Last Supper You said to Your disciples: “Do this for a commemoration of Me.” (Luke 22:19). This utterance had a very special meaning. It referred to the bread and wine, which were given, to Your broken Body and to Your shed Blood.

I shall venture to make a broad application of this statement, but (God forbid!) not a sacrilege. Without confusing the unique act of Your supper with any other action, and now with each reality in its proper order, I should like to extend these words ”Do this for a commemoration of Me”_ to all the daily acts which You performed and which I perform.

I have read this little book several times over some years: A Day with Jesus.

It is a masterful example of lectio divina. The anonymous monk of the Eastern Orthodox Church makes a one-day retreat. The method is to unite all actions and daily living with Jesus. The ingenious reflection, though, is not through the eyes of this monk looking at his day, but through the prism of the written text of the Gospels. So, it is lectio of life done for one day through the lectio of the Gospels.

The content of the book is excellent, but the method is even more beneficial. Again, I read many books a year and find rich insights and compelling inspiration. But this book has challenged me not to simply be edified with this monk’s meditation written with style and grace, but to pick up the same method and do it myself:

A short description of this method of Sustained Lectio Divina:

Lectio divina is a way of praying using the revelatory texts of Scripture, Nature or experience.

This Encounter with God is to listen with the ear of your heart. Lectio divina is our Burning Bush. We take off our sandals and bow our brow to the ground of our being.

One: A one–page description of this method of Sustained Lectio Divina:

Lectio Divina is a way of praying using the revelatory texts of Scripture, Nature or experience.

This Encounter with God is to listen with the ear of your heart. Lectio Divina is our Burning Bush. We take off our sandals and bow our brow to the ground of our being.

A one–page description of the method of Sustained Lectio Divina:

Lectio Divina is a way of praying using the revelatory texts of Scripture, Nature or experience.

This Encounter with God is to listen with the ear of your heart.