Chapter
1 Int| commend you to God, and to the word of his grace that has power
2 Int| turn to the Lord and his Word, which has the power to
3 Int| the eternal and very firm Word of God, who created heaven
4 Int| the little flock was the Word of the Lord, Word in whose
5 Int| was the Word of the Lord, Word in whose name the disciples
6 Int| nourished themselves with this Word of life, thanks to a praying
7 1 | end by the presence of the Word of God.~We will limit ourselves
8 1 | the title Listening to the word of God. Here are its principle
9 1 | principle statements:~1. “The word of God is the first source
10 1 | and sanctifying will.”~The word of God is placed at the
11 1 | regard. By its means the word of God is brought to bear
12 1 | wisdom” approach to the Word, which finds in lectio an
13 1 | efficacious for transferring the word of God into life. If this
14 1 | method of approaching the Word is taken up today, it is
15 1 | make the wisdom of God’s word effective and influential
16 1 | From the meditation of the word of God come fruits of contemplation
17 1 | times.~Meditation of the word is not an end in itself,
18 1 | regularly spending time with the Word, one acquires a sort of ~
19 1 | proposes meditation of the Word and the~method of lectio
20 1 | renewed listening to the word of God.” (39) ~“It is especially
21 1 | necessary that listening to the word of God should become a life-giving
22 1 | biblical text the living word which questions, directs
23 1 | of starting off from the word of God and recommends the
24 1 | biblical ones... The biblical word and, especially, the Gospel
25 1 | especially, the Gospel word express with extraordinarily
26 2 | true listening to God’s word, especially when you want
27 2 | occasions to comment on the Word in public.~In face of these
28 2 | a vital contact with the Word of life. The exhortation
29 2 | constant presence of the Word of God in personal and community
30 2 | praying familiarity with the word of God. Otherwise, the current
31 2 | the intrinsic power of the Word.~I do not need to tell you
32 2 | God of Jesus Christ?~The Word, transmitting with the power
33 2 | remember also that this Word normally is able to develop
34 2 | oneself to be guided by the Word of God, especially by lectio
35 2 | praying familiarity” with that Word, we are on the road to the
36 3 | means having respect for the Word, having a religious sense
37 3 | which reaches me through his Word.~It isn’t I who can invent
38 3 | return to Him.~Accepting the Word as a sure way represents
39 3 | demands on us through the Word, in contrast to our needs
40 3 | daily confrontation with the Word, instead, saves us from
41 3 | Bible, a world in which the Word of the Most High still resounds.~
42 3 | me and the for us of the Word, the today. Its here and
43 3 | and now.~a) For me ~The Word is not only the communication
44 3 | of my daily life with the Word, so that I might be transformed
45 3 | believe the good news.”~The Word is a transforming power
46 3 | transforming power of the Word. Letting oneself be transformed
47 3 | oneself be transformed by the Word means letting goodness and
48 3 | light and power from the Word and the Spirit, that is
49 3 | Spirit, that is from the Word welcomed as God’s power.~
50 3 | Confronting myself daily with this word so that I can be transformed
51 3 | confronting of my life with the Word, the “for me”, in fact pulls
52 3 | acting according to the Word places me into the channel
53 3 | we should think that the Word lives there, who wants to
54 3 | oneself in the logic of God’s Word, right in the midst of the
55 3 | examination in light of the Word, which is a great help for
56 3 | place ourselves around the Word and let ourselves be called
57 3 | community meditation of the Word has given a notable contribution
58 3 | periodically on the “for us” of the Word is the surest way toward
59 3 | with the meditation of the Word: “Bible and newspaper” Karl
60 3 | question of not robbing the Word of its ability to enter
61 3 | diaphragm between me and the Word.~The Oratio or the need
62 3 | Spirit~With the oratio the Word becomes prayer and becomes
63 3 | exegetical study of the Word, on more than one occasion,
64 3 | prayerful reading of the Word. Study is indispensable, (
65 3 | sufficient.~Approaching the Word demands silence, respect,
66 3 | of the priority that the Word deserves.~The oratio and
67 3 | distance between what the Word tells me and what I really
68 3 | closed-ness and my habits.~The Word which expresses God’s will
69 3 | Also for this reason the Word must be prayed: so that
70 3 | likeness.”~Sometimes the Word can reveal the great distance
71 3 | hear my voice”), then the Word, with the power of the Spirit,
72 3 | me as a response to the Word read and meditated, a trusting
73 3 | that on some occasions the Word does not really want to
74 3 | the initiative.~When the Word seems mute, it is then that
75 3 | the Lord’s will.~When the Word is quiet to the senses,
76 3 | that I perceive that that Word is a message which comes
77 3 | divine world, from which the Word comes and to which the Word
78 3 | Word comes and to which the Word wishes to bring one.~The
79 3 | wishes to bring one.~The Word is given us not only so
80 3 | deepest desire, only the Word of God can announce and
81 3 | communicate it. Only the Word can immerse us into the
82 3 | the appropriation of the Word and which permits us to
83 3 | from the comparison of the Word of life just meditated with
84 3 | life.~The growth of the Word (“Parola”) and the Divine
85 3 | Parola”) and the Divine Word (“Verbo”) within us and
86 3 | conception of the Divine Word in the depth of those who
87 3 | those who listen to the Word of God, patiently and perseveringly,
88 3 | generation of the Divine Word (“Verbo”) “is said in a
89 3 | environment, which thanks to the Word and the Spirit, works at
90 3 | action~The actio is the Word which becomes word incarnate
91 3 | is the Word which becomes word incarnate in a life: “It
92 3 | mountain: come down. Preach the word of God, be insistent both
93 3 | After the contact with the Word “who was in the beginning
94 3 | is the contact with the “Word who became flesh and lived
95 3 | stoop in service as the Word (Parola), the Divine Word (
96 3 | Word (Parola), the Divine Word (Verbo), the only-begotten
97 3 | e realizzatori”) of the Word. It is thus that the Word
98 3 | Word. It is thus that the Word becomes incarnate and grows,
99 3 | repetition during the day, of a word or a phrase of the text
100 3 | inspiration from and in the Word.~
101 4 | accompanied the meditation of the Word of God. Results includethe
102 4 | risk of an approach to the Word of God that is inevitably
103 4 | experiences of the Spirit of the Word.~- If in a formation community
104 4 | experiences” aroused by the Word; this may be the most difficult
105 4 | that vital environment the word charism risks becoming only
106 4 | place myself before the Word with my whole being, signed
107 4 | typical incarnations of the Word.~The consecrated person
108 4 | which is to be accepted as word of life, also when it requires
109 4 | daily confrontation with the Word orients me in highlighting
110 4 | which the Spirit threw on a Word of the Lord seen as central
111 5 | daily frequenting of the Word, one can ~expect of consecrated
112 5 | keeping a taste for the Word alive in the Church as Word
113 5 | Word alive in the Church as Word of life, Word that nourishes,
114 5 | Church as Word of life, Word that nourishes, sustains
115 5 | civilization, but is above all the word of God which gives life,
116 5 | God. It is thus that the Word introduces us into a history
117 5 | impenetrable to the action of the Word itself, but which in reality
118 5 | goal by the presence of the Word, for the simple fact that
119 5 | the simple fact that this Word is living, is a Person,
120 5 | promise gives me life”: “This Word is the vital substance of
121 5 | rational soul live as does the word of God”.~Will we, consecrated
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