Friday of the Fourth Week of Eastertide – A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast
Summary: <br> Friday of the Fourth 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 St. John 14:1-6<br> Jesus said to his disciples:<br> ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled.<br> Trust in God still, and trust in me.<br> There are many rooms in my Father’s house;<br> if there were not, I should have told you.<br> I am going now to prepare a place for you,<br> and after I have gone and prepared you a place,<br> I shall return to take you with me;<br> so that where I am<br> you may be too.<br> You know the way to the place where I am going.’<br> Thomas said, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’ Jesus said:<br> ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.<br> No one can come to the Father except through me.’<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> ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled.<br> Trust in God still, and trust in me.<br> There are many rooms in my Father’s house;<br> if there were not, I should have told you.<br> I am going now to prepare a place for you,<br> and after I have gone and prepared you a place,<br> I shall return to take you with me;<br> so that where I am<br> you may be too.<br> You know the way to the place where I am going.’<br> Thomas said, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’ Jesus said:<br> ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.<br> No one can come to the Father except through me.’<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> ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled.<br> Trust in God still, and trust in me.<br> There are many rooms in my Father’s house;<br> if there were not, I should have told you.<br> I am going now to prepare a place for you,<br> and after I have gone and prepared you a place,<br> I shall return to take you with me;<br> so that where I am<br> you may be too.<br> You know the way to the place where I am going.’<br> Thomas said, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’ Jesus said:<br> ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.<br> No one can come to the Father except through me.’<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>
