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Dom Marmion, the famous French Benedictine, says, "We read under the eye of God until the heart is touched and leaps to flame." We read (lectio), under the eye of God (meditatio) until the heart is touched (oratio) and leaps to flame (contemplatio).          

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"It is the attitude we bring to spiritual reading that allows God to transform the text from interesting words to words with the power to change our very being. That attitude is an expectation that we will, through the words we read, be encountered by the loving presence and radical challenge of the living God. That attitude is a willingness to be addressed, discerned, and penetrated by the tender but decisive power of the Holy Spirit. That attitude is a desire to respond fully and freely to what is heard, so that God may restore to us the wholeness of our life in Christ, the divine image obscured in our depths, yet even now being called into the light of day to reveal the glory of the children of God!"

--Soul Feast by Marjorie J. Thompson