Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Eastertide – A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast
Summary: <br> Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Eastertide – A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast<br> As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For at least the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord.<br> Say slowly from your heart “Jesus, I Trust In You…You Take Over”<br> Become aware that He is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within in your heart…<br> From the Holy Gospel According to John 16:5-11<br> Jesus said to his disciples:<br> ‘Now I am going to the one who sent me.<br> Not one of you has asked, “Where are you going?”<br> Yet you are sad at heart because I have told you this.<br> Still, I must tell you the truth:<br> it is for your own good that I am going<br> because unless I go,<br> the Advocate will not come to you;<br> but if I do go,<br> I will send him to you.<br> And when he comes,<br> he will show the world how wrong it was,<br> about sin,<br> and about who was in the right,<br> and about judgement:<br> about sin: proved by their refusal to believe in me;<br> about who was in the right: proved by my going to the Father and your seeing me no more;<br> about judgement: proved by the prince of this world being already condemned.’<br> What word made this passage come alive for you?<br> <br> What did you sense the Lord saying to you?<br> Once more give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you:<br> Jesus said to his disciples:<br> ‘Now I am going to the one who sent me.<br> Not one of you has asked, “Where are you going?”<br> Yet you are sad at heart because I have told you this.<br> Still, I must tell you the truth:<br> it is for your own good that I am going<br> because unless I go,<br> the Advocate will not come to you;<br> but if I do go,<br> I will send him to you.<br> And when he comes,<br> he will show the world how wrong it was,<br> about sin,<br> and about who was in the right,<br> and about judgement:<br> about sin: proved by their refusal to believe in me;<br> about who was in the right: proved by my going to the Father and your seeing me no more;<br> about judgement: proved by the prince of this world being already condemned.’<br> What did your heart feel as you listened?<br> What did you sense the Lord saying to you?<br> Once more, through Him, with Him and in Him listen to the Word:<br> Jesus said to his disciples:<br> ‘Now I am going to the one who sent me.<br> Not one of you has asked, “Where are you going?”<br> Yet you are sad at heart because I have told you this.<br> Still, I must tell you the truth:<br> it is for your own good that I am going<br> because unless I go,<br> the Advocate will not come to you;<br> but if I do go,<br> I will send him to you.<br> And when he comes,<br> he will show the world how wrong it was,<br> about sin,<br> and about who was in the right,<br> and about judgement:<br> about sin: proved by their refusal to believe in me;<br> about who was in the right: proved by my going to the Father and your seeing me no more;<br> about judgement: proved by the prince of this world being already condemned.’<br> What touched your heart in this time of prayer?<br> What did your heart feel as you prayed?<br> What do you hope to carry with you from this time with the Lord?<br> <br> Our Father, who art in heaven,<br> hallowed be thy name.<br> Thy kingdom come.<br> Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.<br> Give us this day our daily bread,<br> and forgive us our trespasses,<br> as we forgive those who trespass against us,<br> and lead us not into temptation,<br> but deliver us from evil.<br> Amen<br> Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM BIBLE, copyright (c) 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd. and Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, Inc. Reprinted by Permission.<br> <br>
