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| Holy Twins St. Benedict and St. Scholastica |
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| NEW BEGINNINGS IS A HOUSE OF PRAYER....INDIVIDUALLY, GROUP, ONE ON ONE, IN THE SILENCE, INTERCESSIONS, THE DAILY OFFICE. PRAYER IS TAUGHT AS WELL AS CAUGHT. WE ARE A PRAYING COMMUNITY THAT KNOWS THE NEED OF PRAYER. HEALING PRAYER THAT CAN TOUCH THE DEPTH OF YOUR SOUL, BRINGING HEALING TO PLACES NEVER DREAMED IMAGINABLE...PRAYER... OUR LIFE LINE TO THE LIVING GOD. PRAYER...THAT INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. PRAYER...OUR WAY OF HEARING GOD SAY TO US...I LOVE YOU. COME AND BE A PART OF NEW BEGINNINGS HOUSE OF PRAYER. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF PRAYER, PLEASE CONTACT US BY PHONE OR EMAIL. WE HAVE OUR INTERCESSORS ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO PRAY WITH AND FOR YOU.. |
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| It is important not to see lectio divina as one more technique or method to be grasped or acquired. It is essentially a process, and a gentle one. Yet is does have its rhythm and framework, and it is useful to see this as four steps or rungs. The first is lectio by which we read some short passage from the Bible...Then comes meditatio, which is the seeking, finding a word or phrase that strikes us, touches us. We repeat it, reflect on it, come to grips with what it is saying to us personally...The vital thing is that it is to and fro, to and fro, time and again, until it becomes like a heartbeat inside of our own self. For then the word touches the heart and we reach the third step, oratio ...It is now that we allow ourselves to be drawn to God as though with a magnet, and all the false self, with its games and facades, falls away and instead we surrender totally to God. This brings us to the final step, contemplatio, in which we learn a new language, silence. We are content simply to be, standing in the presence of God. We let God take us beyond ourselves...As Abbot Marmion puts it: we read (lectio) under the eye of God (meditatio) until the heart is touched (oratio) and leaps into flame (contemplatio). ~Hugh Feiss, Monastic Wisdom |
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| One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple. Psalm 27:4 |
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