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Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of August 31, 2014

August 31: Romans 12: 9-21
September 1: 1 Corinthians 2: 15
September 2: Psalm 116: 1-8

September 3: Matthew 25: 1-13

September 4: 1 Corinthians 3: 18-23

September 5: Psalm 24: 1-6

September 6: Psalm 145: 14-22

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Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of August 24, 2014

August 24: Proverbs 1:7-19
August 25: Psalm 91
August 26: John 1:43-51
August 27: Isaiah 66:1-2
August 28: 1st Letter of John 4:7-16
August 29: 2 Cor. 3:1-6
August 30  Psalm 33:12-22

Voices for Peace

Even if you cannot make it to the church on Saturday, August 23 for the Prayer Vigil for Peace, consider taking some time between 1 and 2 p.m. to think and pray at home -- or wherever you are.

You might tune into this video, listen and ponder deeply the words, based on the Prayer of St. Francis:

Verse 1

Make me a channel of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me bring your love.

Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,

And where there's doubt, true faith in you.

Verse 2

Make me a channel of your peace.

Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope.

Where there is darkness, only light,

And where there's sadness, ever joy.

Refrain

Oh Master, grant that I may never seek

So much to be consoled as to console,

To be understood as to understand,

To be loved as to love with all my soul.

Verse 3

Make me a channel of your peace.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

In giving of ourselves that we receive,

And in dying that we're born to eternal life.

AMEN

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Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of August 17, 2014

August 17: Matthew 14: 22-24

August 18: Matthew 19: 16-22

August 19: Matthew  19:23-30

August 20: Romans 5: 1-5

August 21: Psalm 51: 8-12

August 22: 1 Cor. 13

August 23:  Psalm 112

If you need guidelines or a refresher in how to practice

 lectio divina, click HERE.  :-)

This daily reading and reflection on the scriptures reminds me always what my life, 
what the Christian life, is really meant to be about.

Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB, on the practice of lectio divina

Voices for Peace

Voices for Peace

Prayer Vigil

Join us as we pray for the world

Saturday, August 23, 2014

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

St. Cyprian’s Anglican Church

5005 C&E Trail, Lacombe

Call 403-782-6310 for more information

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Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of August 10, 2014

August 10: Psalm 105: 1-6

August 11: Psalm 63: 1-8

August 12: Matthew 18: 1-5

August 13: James 2: 14-26

August 14: Matthew 18: 21-25

August 15: Luke 1: 46-55

August 16:  Psalm 33

"Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore, the brothers should have specified periods for manual labor as well as for prayerful reading (lectione divina)."

- St. Benedict - Rule of Benedict, 48:1.

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"You are to be diligent in prayer and in lectio; that is how you speak to God and God in turn speaks to you."

- Attributed to (St.) Cyprian of Carthage, ca. AD 256 

- Source: De Waal, Esther, Lost in Wonder,

Canterbury Press, Norwich, UK, 2003

Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of August 3, 2014

August 3: Matthew 14: 13-21

August 4: Acts 6: 1-7

August 5: Matthew 14: 22-36

August 6: Luke 9: 28-37

August 7: Psalm 51: 11-17

August 8: Luke 10: 1-9

August 9: 1 Thessalonians 5: 12-22