“teach us to pray” webinar 2
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“Teach Us to Pray” Webinar 2. “Praying the Scriptures” Presented by The Upper Room and Interpreter Magazine March 19, 2013. Hosts. THE REV. KATHY NOBLE Editor, Interpreter and Interpreter OnLine. THE REV. TOM ALBIN Dean and Director of Ecumenical Relations, The Upper Room. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Teach Us to PrayWebinar 2Praying the Scriptures
Presented by The Upper Room and Interpreter Magazine
March 19, 2013
Hosts
THE REV. KATHY NOBLEEditor, Interpreter and Interpreter OnLine
THE REV. TOM ALBINDean and Director of Ecumenical Relations, The Upper RoomThe Upper Room, www.upperroom.orgInterpreter, www.interpretermagazine.orgMonthly Webinarswww.umc.org/pray
Lord, Teach Us to Pray
PresentersTHE REV. BETH RICHARDSON
ANDREW DREITCERTHE REV. KATHY BARBA PIERCE
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To pray the Scriptures
Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina
is a slow, meditative reading and reflection on a passage of Scripture.Lectio Divina
A process of
ReadingReflectingRespondingResting
Lectio Divina
Pick a portion of Scripture.Set aside some time when you wont be interrupted.Read the text 3 times, listening for a different thing each time.
Lectio Divina
First reading:
Listen for the word or phrase that leaps out at you.What word or phrase calls to you or sticks in your memory?
Lectio Divina
Second reading:
Meditate on the word or phrase that speaks to you.Let it interact with your thoughts, your hopes, your memories.Consider how the word or phrase is touching your life today.
Lectio Divina
Third reading:
Consider how God is calling you forth into doing or being.Allow God to use these words to shape your life.
Lectio Divina
Spend a few more minutes in prayer and meditation.Make some notes in your journal.Go in Gods peace and love.Audio Lectio
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Praying Scripture
.with the Imagination.
Throughout Christian history there have two general paths of praying with Scripture in a slow, receptive style (and both are versions of lectio divina).
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One way DE-emphasizes the imagination: as you get closer to the experience of God there are fewer mental images and words and thoughts.
And theres another way
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This other way emphasizes.
Using the imagination when praying Scripture.As images from praying with scripture increase, the experience of Gods presence increases. The images carry you into a sense of God with you. (Especially seen in Ignatius of Loyola 16th century Spain and in Franciscan prayer in the Middle Ages, but stretching back to the first centuries of Christianity.)
Engage the spiritual senses (interior senses that mirror the 5 exterior senses)Imagine yourself into the scene/situation the passage describes. What do you:See?Hear?Taste?Touch?Smell?And who are you in the scene? What are you feeling as it unfolds? What do you say and do?
18Basic elements of praying Scripture by using the Imagination.Set aside a time of 20 minutes or so and choose a bit of Scripture, e.g., a story of Jesus. Settle into a sense of stillness, inviting a sense of Gods presence.Read and become more familiar with the Scripture passage, and set it aside.Imagine yourself into the scene using your 5 spiritual senses (without worrying about getting details right.): Who and what is here? What do I hear, see, taste, touch, smell? What do I feel? Who am I? What am I doing and saying?Allow Gods Spirit to carry your imagination into a connection with the life of Jesus.And allow yourself to feel that connection.When this image-filled prayer has run its course, perhaps you might journal what you have experienced.Conclude with a prayer of thanks for Gods presence and what has come to you in this time.
The purpose of this kind of prayer is to intimately connect your life with Jesus life so that youMore fully experience Gods loving compassion for you.
More fully develop feelings of compassion.
More fully develop compassionate ways of behaving that free yourself and others.
More fully discern your Christ-like vocation in life.
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Praying the ScripturesWhile Journeying to the Stations
Rethinking Stations of the CrossBrentwood United Methodist ChurchBrentwood, Tennessee
Lenten Cross WalkBroadway Christian Parish United Methodist ChurchSouth Bend, Indiana
Stations of the Resurrection
Wesley Memorial United Methodist ChurchHigh Point, North Carolina
Art from Via Lucis, http://familyfeastandferia.wordpress.com/living-the-liturgical-year-at-home/lentandeaster/via-lucis-way-of-light
Art from Via Lucis, http://familyfeastandferia.wordpress.com/living-the-liturgical-year-at-home/lentandeaster/via-lucis-way-of-light
Art from Via Lucis, http://familyfeastandferia.wordpress.com/living-the-liturgical-year-at-home/lentandeaster/via-lucis-way-of-light
Art from Via Lucis, http://familyfeastandferia.wordpress.com/living-the-liturgical-year-at-home/lentandeaster/via-lucis-way-of-light
Art from Via Lucis, http://familyfeastandferia.wordpress.com/living-the-liturgical-year-at-home/lentandeaster/via-lucis-way-of-light
Art from Via Lucis, http://familyfeastandferia.wordpress.com/living-the-liturgical-year-at-home/lentandeaster/via-lucis-way-of-light
Art from Via Lucis, http://familyfeastandferia.wordpress.com/living-the-liturgical-year-at-home/lentandeaster/via-lucis-way-of-light
PresentersTHE REV. BETH RICHARDSON
ANDREW DREITCERTHE REV. KATHY BARBA PIERCE
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