Monday of the Fifth Week of Eastertide – A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast

About this episode

This episode focuses on a time of Lectio Divina during the Fifth Week of Eastertide, encouraging listeners to reflect on the Gospel and their relationship with Jesus.

Monday of the Fifth Week of Eastertide – A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast 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. Say slowly from your heart “Jesus, I Trust In You…You Take Over” Become aware that He is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within in your heart… From the Holy Gospel According to St. John 14:21-26 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me; and anybody who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and show myself to him.’ Judas – this was not Judas Iscariot – said to him, ‘Lord, what is all this about? Do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?’ Jesus replied: ‘If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make our home with him. Those who do not love me do not keep my words. And my word is not my own: it is the word of the one who sent me. I have said these things to you while still with you; but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will…

People in this episode

Host: Discerning Hearts

Topics covered

• Eastertide
• Lectio Divina
• spiritual reflection
• Christian teachings
• Gospel reading

Keywords

• Eastertide
• Lectio Divina
• spirituality
• Gospel
• Christianity
• reflection
• prayer

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Holy Gospel According to St. John

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