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Every week I provide commentary on the readings and then end with one or more questions designed to help you think more deeply about those readings. The process of asking questions of the readings is very valuable and this month we’ll focus on this discipline, particularly with the standard who-what-when-where-why-how questions.  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday READ MORE

St. Ignatius proposed a way of reading scripture that puts us in the text by imagining the scene and entering into it. This month is a technique somewhat opposite to that. Rather than imagining a world not our own, we instead re-imagine the text in our own world. For example, if we are reading a READ MORE

Every week in my commentary, I pick apart verses, phrases, and words. And sometimes I do so at great length! It can be helpful to dig into each individual part in an effort to understand the whole. The study method I suggest this month is to do the opposite of what my commentary does: rather READ MORE

Imaginative prayer, often referred to as Ignatian Contemplation, is a way of entering more deeply into a story, particularly the Gospel stories. The goal of all prayer is to come into living contact with God, and imaginative prayer invites us to do this through our imagination. You can learn more about Ignatian Contemplation from this READ MORE

Sometimes studying the scripture passages leads us to a wide view, and we read all the passages over and over again to see what comes up. This next approach will narrow the focus significantly, inviting us to sit with a single word and dig into all it has to say. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday READ MORE

One way to engage more deeply with the Sunday readings is to take the following general approach: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday