Lectio for Lent- Monday, March 28, 2022
Theme: Zeal
Readings: Psalm 19:1-6 John 2:13-17
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We are reading the Psalm and gospel reading from the third Sunday in Lent.
Prayer of Stillness
Oh Lord, as we enter prayer now, we pause to be still (Pause & Pray)
To be silent (Pause)
To gather our scattered senses and thoughts (Pause)
To re-center our attention on the presence of God (Pause)
To breath in deeply the love of God (Pause)
God is here with us. He desires and loves to be with us.
He delights in us. He delights when we come together in a community of prayer.
Prayer of Gathering
O Lord, we ask that you would gather us as one vessel to receive and hold whatever you would pour into us so that whatever you give us might overflow from our hearts into our community and the world. Fill us with your Holy Spirit.
Amen
We join with the universal body of God’s people in reading the words of Psalm 19:1-6.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
In them, he has set a tent for the sun, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.
Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.
Psalm 19:1-6
Lectio Divina
Lectio– First reading: John 2:13-17
Let the text wash over you, noticing words or phrases that grab your attention.
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple, he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen.
And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.
John 2:13-17 ESV
Let the text wash over you, noticing words or phrases that grab your attention.
(Pause & Pray)
Meditatio– Second reading: John 2:13-17 From The Message Translation
Put yourself in the story, notice what images, sensations, or feelings that stand out.
When the Passover Feast, celebrated each spring by the Jews, was about to take place, Jesus traveled up to Jerusalem. He found the Temple teeming with people selling cattle and sheep and doves. The loan sharks were also there in full strength.
Jesus put together a whip out of strips of leather and chased them out of the Temple, stampeding the sheep and cattle, upending the tables of the loan sharks, spilling coins left and right. He told the dove merchants, “Get your things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a shopping mall!” That’s when his disciples remembered the Scripture, “Zeal for your house consumes me.
John 2:13-17 MSG
Put yourself in the story, notice what images, sensations, or feelings that stand out.
(Pause & Pray)
Oratio– Third reading: John 2:13-17
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple, he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen.
And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.
John 2:13-17 ESV
Respond to God with a prayer of what you’ve just seen and heard.
(Pause & Pray)
Closing Prayer
Loving God, you fill all things with your presence and hope that we can never comprehend. Thank you for being here with us as we gather together as one community for the sake of the world.
May we put our hope and efforts into what truly matters and what lasts. Give us the wisdom to see what needs to be said, done, and undone.
Awaken me more into the realm of faith that I might feel your power working through me as a vessel of divine healing.
Let me be the conduit of your healing touch. Give me the courage at that moment to forget myself and simply remember you.
At this moment, please add your prayers for a need in your community or the world that needs a healing touch...
Good God, you are hearing us better than even we can put into words,
We offer these prayers.
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
