Fr. Ambrose Criste is a graduate of Colorado College, a Rhodes Scholar, and a Norbertine Monk. Ambrose and I spoke about lectio divina—holy reading, or what he called meditative and contemplative reading. This reading is “not about mileage,” he says, but about eating a text, embodying a text, declaiming or singing a text, resting in, returning to, delighting in, and living a text. It is an old practice and one that predates the idea of information.
Great conversation and exchange. Lectio Divina done quite we..