Introduction: Our Lectio Divina for this month is focused on the theme: “Christmas a missionary event per excellence”. There are three texts we shall use for our Lectio Divina: two from Luke 1:26-38 and 2:1-20; and one from the Continue reading →
Introduction: The text of John 11:1-37, starts with the description of a sick man, Lazarus, and ends with the conquest of Jesus of over death. The text is reach in dialogues which one can identify with: Jesus and the Apostles, Continue reading →
Introduction: The text of John 10:1-18 presents us Jesus as the ‘Shepherd’ of God’s flock and the ‘door’ access to God. This text follows the previous text whereby Jesus, the good shepherd, contrasted himself with the Pharisees who had expelled Continue reading →
Introduction: The text of John 9:1-41 tells us of the healing of a man born blind and about the power of Jesus and the meaning of his presence in the world. It is an invitation for us to open our Continue reading →
Introduction: The text of John 8:1-11, shows us all without any distinction or discrimination the unlimited Compassion, Mercy and Love of God through his Son Jesus who has come not to condemn the world but to save it (Jn 3:17). Continue reading →
Introduction: In this text of John 6:1-15, the Evangelist brings up another miracle, the “multiplication of Loaves, which is presented in the same context as the previous passage of our ‘Lectio Divina’, just before the Jewish Festival/Passover. The intention Continue reading →
Introduction: In this text of John 5:1-16, the main focus in on the person of Jesus and his compassion towards a person who has been ill for thirty eight years. The text does not say much about the faith of Continue reading →
Introduction: John 4:46-54, is a text which shows a paradigm of authentic faith in the Son of God. It is not miracles that make people believe but the discovering who Jesus is and why he has been sent to the Continue reading →
Introduction: the text of John 4:20-30 is the continuation of our last Lectio Divina which introduced the conversation of Jesus with the Samaritan woman and progressively going further in their relationship, to a spiritual level, whereby after Jesus making her Continue reading →
Introduction: in John 4:1-42, Jesus meets a woman of Samaria. The verses 1-4, John not only introduces the story of Jesus’ relationship with the woman of Samaria but he gives the reason why he left Judea and decided to go Continue reading →
