Contemplative Scholar’s Journal — 90-Day Lectio Divina Practice Across Five Ancient Languages

Description:

Lectio Divina — sacred reading, is one of the oldest practices in the Christian tradition. Benedict gave it a structure. The desert fathers gave it a posture. Generations of monks and ordinary believers gave it their mornings and their quiet hours.

This journal leads you through that practice over ninety days using words from five languages of the Christian contemplative tradition: Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Classical Syriac. Each word comes from the living stream of prayer that has been flowing for two thousand years.

This is explicitly a Christian contemplative practice. If you are not drawn to that tradition this journal may not be for you, and that is entirely fine. If you are, there is nothing else like it.

What’s inside:

• Welcome page and how to use guide

• 90 daily two-page spreads structured around Lectio, Meditatio, Oratio, Contemplatio

• Left page: word in ancient script, transliteration, translation, language tradition, and scholarly note

• Right page: contemplative prompt and generous writing space

• Closing field: One question this raises that I have not answered yet

Format: 6 x 9 paperback, approximately 181 pages

Who this is for: Christian contemplatives, those drawn to liturgical and monastic traditions, readers of Thomas Merton, Thomas Keating, and the Desert Fathers.