Holy Week, Palm Sunday to Good Friday: Contemplative Reading of Scripture 10

This book is the tenth in the series Contemplative Reading of Scripture. It discusses all the readings for Holy Week, from Palm Sunday to Good Friday. This book follows the method of prayer introduced in earlier books of the series, called the “Prayer of the Heart to the Trinity,” giving again a description of this “Prayer.” In this prayer we place a veil over the busy activities of our brains and draw our inner attention to our hearts where we enter into prayer with the Trinity. Second, it follows the pattern of reading Scripture, called CLASP. These letters stand for: Cor, Lectio, Auditus, Suspiria, and Pax. We begin in our “heart” with prayer. We “read” through our Scripture passage. We “listen” to what this passage says to our hearts. We express in “sighs” to the Holy Spirit our longing to understand the Scripture more deeply. We end our prayer time in “peace.” In this book we introduced a new way of praying with the Gospel readings called “a gaze of love.” We explain this pattern of prayer in Chapter 1.Following this pattern of contemplative prayer and reading of Scripture, the Chapters treat the readings for Holy Week: Palm Sunday to Good Friday. Each chapter is introduced by a selection from the series by N.T. Wright, Lent is for Everyone and concludes with a selection from Oswald Chambers, Our Brilliant Heritage. A Chapter of illustrations of world deserts is added. Bibliography is listed.All royalties from this book will go to support the Carmelite Sisters in Armstrong, BC. Read more