Lectio Divina―The Sacred Art: Transforming Words & Images into Heart-Centered Prayer (The Art of Spiritual Living)
Nurture your inner monk and surrender to the natural grace and rhythm of your heart's deepest longings.
"The whole world is, in fact, a text of sacred revelation. All experience has the potential to be revelatory, and God is singing one unending song seducing each of our hearts. So the call is to listen, to attune to the words God utters in the world."
―from the Afterword
Break open this ancient contemplative practice of listening deeply for God's voice in sacred texts. Drawing on her own experience as a monk in the world, Christine Valters Paintner introduces the foundations for a practice of lectio divina. She closely examines each of the four movements of lectio divina as well as the rhythm they create when practiced as a process. She then invites you to expand your practice beyond traditional sacred texts to a sacred reading of the world through image, sound, nature and life experience.
Whether you want to start a contemplative prayer practice or deepen your experience of lectio divina in new ways, you are invited to savor the gifts lectio divina has to offer your heart and spirit.
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Book details
- Author
- Christine Valters Painter
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Prayer
Religion › Spirituality - Topics
- contemplative prayer · Christian spirituality · sacred texts · listening for God · spiritual practice
- ISBN-13
- 9781594733000 (Paperback)9781683361701 (Hardcover)
About the author
CHRISTINE VALTERS PAINTNER is a Benedictine oblate, spiritual director, and the author of more than twenty books on spirituality, including titles published by SkyLight Paths and Ave Maria Press.
Paintner holds a doctorate in Christian spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and carries professional standing as a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator (REACE) through the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. She serves as online Abbess of Abbey of the Arts, a virtual monastery integrating contemplative practice and creative expression.
When she’s not writing, Paintner works as a retreat facilitator, poet, and teacher. Her books draw on the same contemplative and expressive arts practices that shape her broader ministry.
Christine lives in Galway, Ireland, with her husband John.