The Bible Study Evangelista

“Look, I am giving all this land to you! Go in and occupy it, for it is the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to all their descendants” (Deut 1:8). L – Listen (Receive the Word.) O – Observe (Choose one or more of the following personality approaches to connect the passage to your life and recent events.) F | Franciscan – Through a food pantry or food kitchen, a specially cooked meal, or as an Extraordinary Minster of the Eucharist, how can you offer the bread of God to others? I | Ignatian – Imagine or remember yourself in the desert. Feel yourself there, accepting that God led you to this place. What do you long for in each of your senses? What do you wish you tasted, heard, felt, saw, smelled? A | Augustinian -If you are in the desert, what has God said to you about trusting Him through this show? If you have made it through the desert and are in the Promised Land, what has God said to you about how to make it th...

“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. ‘Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble'” (Matt 6:33). LOVE the Word® is a Bible study method based on Mary’s own practice: lectio without the Latin. L – Listen (Receive the Word.) O – Observe (Choose one or more of the following personality approaches to connect the passage to your life and recent events.) F | Franciscan – Gather a small stone for each of the things you can think of for which you seeking, other than “the kingdom of God and His righteousness.” Throw each of the stones into a pond or lake, in turn, as you are able to release them to God and His will. I | Ignatian – Using all your senses, imagine you are one of a field full of wildflowers, dancing in the sun and breeze of God’s love. As a flower, what do you worry about? Do you work and labor at growi...

What if, when the disciples said to Him, “Teach us to pray,” Jesus knew they were looking for something “special,”some new prayer that was particular to Him and His followers? What if He surprised them by telling them to simply continue praying the prayer they had been praying all their lives? Thank you to my Friends of the Show for loving and lifting me! LOVE the Word® is a Bible study method based on Mary’s own practice: lectio without the Latin. L – Listen (Receive the Word.) O – Observe (Choose one or more of the following personality approaches to connect the passage to your life and recent events.) F | Franciscan – Pray an Our Father, facing East, with feet planted firmly together! I | Ignatian – Using all your senses, imagine you are in the group when Jesus “teaches” the disciples the Our Father, either at the Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5 & 6), while Jesus is alone praying “in a certain place.” What do you see? Hear? Smell? Feel? Wh...

LOVE the Word® is a Bible study method based on Mary’s own practice: lectio without the Latin. L – Listen (Receive the Word.) O – Observe (Choose one or more of the following personality approaches to connect the passage to your life and recent events.) F | Franciscan – What do you learn about suffering by watching these sheep being shorn? <span style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" data-mce-type="bookmark" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> I | Ignatian – When have you had an experience like Job, where suddenly you “saw” God rather than “hearing about” Him? What were the circumstances of that experience ? A | Augustinian – I found it interesting that sheep naturally relax for shearing once they’re on their backs. What does that say about how God “shears” you through suffering? Why is it more important that we know God , rather than k...

In highly poetic symbolism, in Job 41, and elsewhere throughout the Bible, Leviathan is presented as different from an ordinary sea monster, because it cannot be captured; at least not by man, as Job exemplifies. God, however, is aloof and unaffected by the terror with which He ascribes to Leviathan. Through the context of the Book of Job, we understand that He alone possesses the power to conquer it (41:10-11).

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