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aikiguille.bsky.social
Ayer noche en #loderol y mientras @xgusix.bsky.social echaba una cabezadita, @ibericang.bsky.social @athosirart.bsky.social @srskaven.bsky.social y un servidor, jugamos tremenda 6ª sesión de Lectio Divinitatus para Imperium Maledictum que publica @deviriberia.bsky.social.
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
deankcl.bsky.social
WEDNESDAY with @kcl-chaplaincy.bsky.social

*9.30: Torah Meditation
*10: Mindfulness
*12.15: Pray the Holy Rosary
*12.30: Confession
*1.10: Interfaith Week Service
*1.10: RC Mass
*2.45: Vocations Grp Mtng
*3: Lectio Divina
*6: Christus Medicus
*6: Kirtan & Talk

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November 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
janpsolivagant.bsky.social
🙏 to @hool415.bsky.social #PromptCombo
#DeepTime take on #workinglove

#newpoem / #photography:
©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025/2022-24

#poetry #JohnCage #MechtildOfMagdeburg #AsSlowAsPossible #orgelprojekt #MysticMonday #thework
Fatal Day in Halberstadt 1361 Decameron‘s Twelfth Night. Lollards hitch their prayers, their Plight to the Morning Star. Pestis Secunda scourges Plantagenet England. Giotto’s Last Judgement Slumbers in umbrage on the Cusp of the Quattrocento. Halberstadt, Flush, bustling prince-bishopric - its Cathedral-treasure stash of Relics looted at the Sack of Constantinople – hosts the First of its Kind: Chromatic keyboard, Twelve half-tones arranged in Octaves. Halberstadt - where, at St. Burchardi’s Monastery, Cistercian Sisters Scale the canonical hours: Minor - Terce, Sext, None and Compline; Major - Matins, Lauds and Vespers, in Perpetual rounds of Work, prayer and Lectio Divina. A century before, They nestle in a fecund vessel of Mystical vision, where Mechthild of Magdeburg - Fluid, erotic, vernacular - Lights the way for Meister Eckhart; where Mechtilde, Helfta’s Nightingale, Dispenses Special Grace to Dante as Matelda. Six-hundred-and-thirty-nine years Slip by. Millennium tenor Deeds St. Burchardi’s to Zen musical maverick already Eight years passed: Bird now uncaged - Purposeless, intentionless - Pecking away at membranes - Temporal, musical – from the Beyond. The Six-hundred-and-thirty-nine-year Lease unfolds As Slow as Possible on an Organ fashioned for this purpose. Hiss of compressors, taut notes Coasting over billowing groans until 2640. Pauses a week before 9/11: seventeen months of silence, then Nine movements, each lasting Seventy-one years. Chord kept up over seven years, between Benedict’s flight to Castel Gandolfo and Second Lockdown. Austere piety, Avant-garde whimsy - ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 Spurning utility, instrumentality - Partaking in visions that far Outstrip lifetimes, Current-day zeitgeist confines. Contemplative prayer, Playful contingency - Tentative forays into Deep Time, Possible only when one Listens closely with Open heart, Open mind. Eternity disclosed in Nugacity, ephemera: Birds, lilies, Mustard seeds. Cloistered life, Choral work Whetting one’s Keenness for the Core - Still and small. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2024 Highly contrasted monochrome image of a statue by Susan Turcot (2007/8) of mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg (1207-1282) ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2022 Poster-sized mural of US avant-garde composer, John Cale (1912-1992)
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
mattnightingale.bsky.social
And then for our lectio divina practice, we read "Patient Trust" by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ. Thank you to
@thelepper.bsky.social for choosing the song and text, and for reading so beautifully for us tonight. 🙏🏼❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability and that it may take a very long time And so I think it is with you; your ideas mature gradually-let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don't try to force them on, as though you could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. Above all, trust in the slow work of God our loving vine dresser.
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
dareiadareia.bsky.social
A very nice volume coming from an event at LECTIO (@lectio-institute.bsky.social), also featuring my collection of thoughts on prefaces and names. Always strange (but also enjoyable) to think back to the original conference when the publication comes out.
October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
margueritek.bsky.social
Jesus says, "Hence I speak to them in parables."

I have only ever halfway understood any parable. Sermons, commentaries, lots of lectio notwithstanding.
He was talking about me. 😮‍💨🕯
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ibericang.bsky.social
Ya teneis disponible la sesion 4 de Lectio Divinitatus para #W40K #ImperiumMaledictum
Con @aikiguille.bsky.social
@athosirart.bsky.social @xgusix.bsky.social Iskan de @eldadodemerlin.bsky.social @srskaven.bsky.social

Que la disfruteis!!
youtu.be/wZGB0q9acbo
#4 - Lectio Divinitatus | Warhammer 40K: Imperium Maledictum | Primer Evangelio, parte 3
YouTube video by IBERICAN GAMER
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October 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
barbarabirch.bsky.social
This quote came up at the Lectio Divina course for @woodbrooke.bsky.social yesterday and it perfectly describes my mindset as I set out for #NoKings rally today. "A fine union of serenity and adventure"
#QuakerActionWorship #QuakerQuote
There comes a sense of fusion of the finite and the infinite, a unification of the surface consciousness with the deeps which underlie it and with it an élan vital which dynamizes the life of action…. There comes a fine union of serenity and adventure. Rufus Jones, 1936, Recovery of the Lost Radiance
October 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
aikiguille.bsky.social
Ayer noche en #lodelrol 4ª sesión de Lectio Divinitatus. El titán @ibericang.bsky.social ha inaugurado la Spooky Season en el sector Machariano. Los corazones de @srskaven.bsky.social @xgusix.bsky.social @athosirart.bsky.social e Iskan de @eldadodemerlin.bsky.social llenos de oscuridad y herejía.
October 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
friendsjournal.org
Lectio divina is a contemplative practice that for centuries has played a spiritually transformative role for monastic Catholics. A new book by Barbara Birch shows how Quakers can adapt this contemplative practice to enrich their solitary prayer as well as their corporate worship among Friends.
REVIEWED: Lectio Divina: Revelation and Prophecy
A new guide to reading Scripture invites us to examine our prejudices, reframe our constricting mindsets, and submit ourselves to change.
www.friendsjournal.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
lindevde.bsky.social
On the 19th of December, @jarrikvanderbiest.bsky.social, Claire Morrison and I are organizing a @lectio-institute.bsky.social workshop on gender, religion and the early
modern university.

Please spread broadly!

More info & registration: www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...
October 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
ibericang.bsky.social
Tercer capítulo de W40K: Imperium Maledictum - Lectio Divinitatus ya disponible

Me encanta ver como van evolucionando los pj de @aikiguille.bsky.social @athosirart.bsky.social @srskaven.bsky.social
@xgusix.bsky.social e Iskan de @eldadodemerlin.bsky.social

Maravilla:
youtu.be/uU5eyrh5s4Q
#3 - Lectio Divinitatus | Warhammer 40K: Imperium Maledictum | Primer Evangelio, parte 2
YouTube video by IBERICAN GAMER
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October 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
oldmanofthefire.bsky.social
I should tell you about one of my favorite artistic practices: Lectio Divina. Originally a form of contemplative prayer.

1. Choose an image that speaks to you. 2. Spend a good deal of focused time meditating on why it speaks to you. 3. Create something in response, from that depth of feeling.
October 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
aikiguille.bsky.social
Ayer noche en #lodelrol, 3ª sesión de Lectio Divinitatus, campaña de @ibericang.bsky.social para Imperium Maledictum. El grupo de inadaptados sociales formado por @srskaven.bsky.social @xgusix.bsky.social @athosirart.bsky.social e Iskan de @eldadodemerlin.bsky.social, continúan su terapia...
October 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
bpdflores.bsky.social
AD NONAM
LECTIO BREVIS
Prov 22, 22-23

Non fácias violéntiam páuperi, quia pauper est, neque cónteras egénum in porta, quia iudicábit Dóminus causam eórum, et ánima spoliábit spoliatóres.
October 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
aikiguille.bsky.social
Embarcamos en el Sangre del Démeter y comienza El Éxodo. 2ª sesión de Lectio Divinitatus para Imperium Maledictum. Con @ibericang.bsky.social al timón y @srskaven.bsky.social @xgusix.bsky.social @athosirart.bsky.social e Iskan de @eldadodemerlin.bsky.social tripulando #lodelrol
youtu.be/O-tJatncBu8
#2 - Lectio Divinitatus | Warhammer 40K: Imperium Maledictum | Primer Evangelio, parte 1
YouTube video by IBERICAN GAMER
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October 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
bantowblog.bsky.social
その後のルカ2:19にはこうある。

しかし、マリアはこれらの出来事をすべて心に納めて、思い巡らしていた。

聖書の受容はわからないまま胸にとどめておく態度が肯定される。プロテスタント的なソラ・スクリプトゥラの伝統も、必ずしも註解を携えずに「読む」ことから出発するし、カトリックでも「聖なる読書」（lectio divina）は、まず意味を取り尽くすのではなく、言葉を受けて黙想する営みだ。
bantowblog.bsky.social bantowblog @bantowblog.bsky.social · Oct 4
ルカ2:14だ。
October 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
margueritek.bsky.social
Nothing like Hosea to set you right with yourself.
I once did a lectio day after day through that whole book, and I never got quite over it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
margueritek.bsky.social
Favorite day of the week? (Apart from Sunday)
Wednesday - because that's my day for lectio and because I neither have to eat nor cook supper.

Favorite time of the day?
Early a.m. after M.P. while having my tea and reading some short miscellaneous religious thing. 😊🕯
September 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
aikiguille.bsky.social
Ayer noche en #lodelrol 1ª sesión de Lectio Divinitatus, campaña que se ha sacado de la manga @ibericang.bsky.social para Imperium Maledictum de @deviriberia.bsky.social. En mesa @athosirart.bsky.social @srskaven.bsky.social @xgusix.bsky.social y de sorpresa, Iskan de @eldadodemerlin.bsky.social.
September 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
aikiguille.bsky.social
Sesión 0 de la campaña Lectio Divinitatus, para el juego Imperium Maledictum que publica @deviriberia.bsky.social. Creada y dirigida por el titán @ibericang.bsky.social y como victimas @srskaven.bsky.social @xgusix.bsky.social @athosirart.bsky.social y un servidor. #lodelrol 👇
youtu.be/2iblm3PcoxU
#0 - Lectio Divinitatus | Warhammer 40K: Imperium Maledictum | Creación de Personajes
YouTube video by IBERICAN GAMER
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September 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
aikiguille.bsky.social
Pistoletazo de salida ayer noche en #lodelrol, para este Lectio Divinitatus, campaña propia del titán @ibericang.bsky.social para el juego Imperium Maledictum que publica @deviriberia.bsky.social . Sesión blíster de creación de personajes, por cierto, bastante dura para la buena de Mathilda...
September 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
whatashrinkthinks.com
This mid-month installation of the Lectio Essay series :

(and yes, this is an autographed photo of Victor Garber in Godspell. A prized possession)
In Foxholes
Martha Crawford — September 17, 2025
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
quietstuff.bsky.social
no contribution to this other than to share an absolutely insane wiktionary etymology guy concoction
screenshot of wiktionary page for proto-semitic *šawmān "dove": Proto-Semitic Alternative reconstructions: *sₓawmān- Noun: *šawmān- (m), "dove" Reconstruction notes: It was suggested in Rescher (1911)[1] to identify Arabic حَمَام (ḥamām, “dove”) with Akkadian 𒋢𒌝𒈬𒌝 (summum, “dove”). He knew some examples where Arabic varies ح (ḥ) with ه (h), such as حَرَّشَ (ḥarraša) and هَرَّشَ (harraša). About the relevant sound-changes for the first phoneme there was little consciousness then: Akkadian s corresponding to West-Semitic š is secured, leaving no need to read Akkadian šummum here, such as for *šaʔal- (“to cough”) and even *šabʕ- (“seven”), and has been taken since Goetze (1958) as grounds to posit another Proto-Semitic phoneme *sₓ.[2][3] Whereas a sound-law effective in West-Semitic, visible in *šim (“if”), was formulated in Al-Jallad (2015):[4] 1. Proto-West Semitic: *š > *h / #_, _# 2. Incompletely in Aramaic depending on regio- and chronolect, and in Arabic and Ethio-Semitic: *h > *ʔ / {#_VC}[-stress]. Arabic seems to have evaded the second sound shift by shifting /h/ to /ħ/, bringing it closer to a lovely phonestheme (cont) (as in ح ب ب (ḥ b b), compare dialectal حَبْحَب (ḥabḥab, “watermelon”), a fruit as plump as the pigeon), while Northwest Semitic opted for popular /j/ in the first position. The Arabic and Akkadian forms have been left out in Militarev and Kogan (2005, 2011)[5],[6] reconstructing but with the Amharic and Northwest Semitic, without the Amorite form[7] later added by Golinets (2016), an unlikely variation Proto-Semitic *yawn-at ~ *wānay- (“dove”), but the usual terms for “dove, pigeon” in Arabic and Akkadian were left isolated thus, listing instead the Akkadian[8] together with but an obscure Arabic سَمَامَة (samāma) and سُمَّان (summān), which has a native derivation, under *sVm(V)m(-at)- ~ *cVm(V)m(-at)-. Assuming this form *šawmān-, the ultimate derivation may be transparent, +‎ *-ān- from the verb *šawam- whence Arabic سَامَ (sāma, “to rove, to pasture”), in reference to how pigeons walk around, compare the etymology of Arabic حَجَل (ḥajal, “partridge”); hardly *šamāy- (“sky”) whence سَمَا (samā, “to be high”) since flying high is not distinctive for doves, while the formal match is also less, unless one reconstructs *šamwān-. The morphological transparency as a well-known but rather meaningless suffix then accounts for the loss of +‎ *-ān- in Akkadian, while the full form can be seen in the terminative 𒋢𒌝𒈠𒌋𒌋 (su-um-ma-niš /⁠summāniš⁠/, “like a dove”),[9] though -āniš be assumed an alternative form of -iš (“terminative or adverbial”). From the full Akkadian form Arabic سُمَّان (summān, “quail”) could only be borrowed, alternatively -ān- is a West Semitic addition and we have to reconstruct *šawm- respectively *sₓawm-, however compare *ʔirbay-, *ʔirbayān- (“locust”) where Arabic and Eblaite point to an archaism in *-ān-, and in either case, the trailing consonant following the stress was hard to hear and could not resist the pressure of the middle /m/, hence Amorite and Arabic have regressively assimilated it for economy as *ām- – that is, the change in place of articulation, though its assumption in addition to other transformations seem unparsimonious in connecting the common Semitic term, took place because its retention required to change the place of articulation at every instance of the word’s pronunciation and was thus unparsimonious and ultimately unlikely. Recognizing alteration being more likely than not, -ān is the lectio difficilior, additionally supported by the other languages exposing it.
September 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM