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00:00As I mentioned in our previous video, it's essential that you dedicate time to it.
00:22to prayer and meditation on the word. A person who prays and meditates will undoubtedly be a different person.
00:35Why? Because he will think, speak, and act in a very special way, different from everyone else.
00:43Why? Because he is driven by the word that now dwells in his heart.
00:52In order to carry out this exercise, which we call divine lesson, it has been structured over the centuries in four simple steps
01:04that when we do it daily it becomes the fundamental instrument for the development of the Christian life.
01:14Listen carefully, take notes. What are these four moments in the lesson?
01:201. Lectio or reading of the word. 2. Meditatio or meditation.
01:35Everything is in Latin because that's what it was called, that's how it is, and I'm including the translation so you can understand it.
01:42And when they talk to you about the lesson or the meditation, you will know what they are talking about.
01:46It is the meditation on the word of God.
01:48The other moment would be the oratio, which would be prayer.
01:54And finally, there would be the action, which is the action or the purpose.
02:00Let's look, even if only briefly, as they say, old bird, at each of these so we can understand what it's about.
02:09The lesson consists of a careful reading of the word of God, because it turns out that almost every time we read we get distracted.
02:17No. Dig deeper, look at who says it, how they say it, why they say it, where they say it, who tells them, and how they tell them.
02:24Let's see if there's any repetition of verbs, right?
02:28In the word, everything is written in a perfect way.
02:33So if Peter appears as number one in the list of the apostles, it is because he is number one.
02:39Not because the person who made the list said, who, who, oh, well let's put Pedro.
02:42No, it has an order, right?
02:48Everything is written, remember that God inspired it, so it is perfect.
02:53Careful reading, lesson, careful reading.
02:57Second, meditation.
02:58Now it consists of meditating on what you read, so that you now take this to your mind, you have already assimilated it because you did an attentive reading.
03:12And now what were once letters are transformed into words and actions within our soul.
03:18Now you will allow the word to come to life, to take shape within us.
03:25We're going to do an exercise a little later so you can see how this is done, right?
03:33Third is oratio, that is, it is the action that makes the spirit in our heart really turn this word into life within us.
03:46The prayer.
03:48God comes, sends the Holy Spirit to our aid, and communicates with us.
03:55And now He is going to instill in the soul, look, instill in the soul feelings and resolutions that only He knows and that emerge from what we have read.
04:09Incredible, isn't it?
04:10That's right, it's the truth.
04:12In other words, when you enter meditation now, suddenly inside, I'm going to say it's as if a new world suddenly explodes or a different world opens up and you begin to feel and see and have a different experience.
04:29That makes the characters stop being a certain Hosea or a certain Peter or a certain John.
04:41No.
04:41Now they have life inside you.
04:46This will be followed by action.
04:50Okay, God has formed in you a series of feelings, of elements, you have understood many things.
04:58Now, the act refers to the purposes that emerge from our meditation.
05:05These are the practical things we feel, that God tells us we should do or change, that inspires us.
05:12This is what is currently clear in our soul and in our heart.
05:16It is important to say that this is not all that the spirit does, because most of it remains hidden in our heart and only it knows when this material that we have read and meditated on will be used.
05:32In other words, we won't always be able to immediately see all the action of the spirit, or everything we have to do, or everything we have to understand.
05:47That will be an action that God will take in His time so that we can truly be disciples of the Lord and live according to His word.
05:59To live according to the plan He has for us.
06:04Now, you might ask yourself.
06:07Very good, father, well all this is very nice.
06:09How cool.
06:11Okay later, Dad.
06:14Well, that has been a serious problem within our church, that we have no one to teach us, no one to tell us, and no one to guide us.
06:23Pray.
06:24Well, let's call it the Lord's Prayer.
06:25Yes, but meditate, give life to the word, transform it.
06:29As?
06:30But how do I do it, Father?
06:31Very good.
06:32I'm going to give you a simple method.
06:34It is a method that we have largely extracted.
06:36It is called the Ignatian method of meditation.
06:39It's not everything.
06:40But I think that will give you enough to get started.
06:45In other words, this video will always be available to you and you can review it, relive it, take notes, pause if something catches your attention, and have it readily accessible.
06:59It is very important because this is what will help that word you are reading now to become life and can truly become a path and light for your whole life.
07:11So, what needs to be done?
07:14Well, the first thing is to find a place where you can be alone, at least for half an hour.
07:19A good Christian, I have told you, should spend at least an hour in prayer.
07:25But hey, set aside half an hour for yourself, to pray.
07:30Find a place, preferably one that isn't too bright, but bright enough to read.
07:39You can light a candle, some people use a little incense to create a mystical atmosphere, so to speak, and feel like you're entering into that presence of God.
07:52Second, now you are going to select the topic you want to meditate on.
08:00What topic do you want to meditate on?
08:02There are people who meditate on the Bible in this way continuously; they will take the Gospel of Luke and take, it is called a pericope, that is, a small piece of the text.
08:13And that's what he's going to meditate on, and the next day the one after that, and so on and so on and so on.
08:17Others take a text and exhaust it and exhaust it and exhaust it until they bring back as much as they can from the text.
08:24It has, because it is infinite.
08:26I have read texts that I continue to meditate on, and every time I read them, if you go to our page, there on the Evangelization page,
08:33And if you go into the homilies section, you will find a number of homilies, many of them on the same text.
08:40And you'll see that there's always a different instruction and meditation.
08:43Then, select the topic you want to meditate on.
08:48You can use one of the homilies; you can meditate on the homilies; they are all recorded there. In short, there are resources.
08:57So, in this sense, what would you like to achieve or what aspect would you like to change?
09:04So, instead of reading it gradually, you say, I would like to find a text that talks about obedience,
09:13or a series of texts on obedience, or a series of texts on faith, or a series of texts,
09:20and you select the topic you would like to meditate on.
09:25You're going to do this maybe for a month, two months, three months, however long you want, on a single topic.
09:30Or you can go the other way, which is to select, well, a gospel, and start working with that gospel for as long as you need to be able to, I call it, squeeze, squeeze the text.
09:45So, now that you have it, what are you going to do?
09:51Now we must invoke the Holy Spirit, because He is the one who comes to enlighten us, isn't He?
09:56Therefore, there are many preparatory prayers that can be used; they have been written by different saints and masters of prayer.
10:06So, find one online, and choose the one that suits you best.
10:10Right away, now you have it, great, what are you going to do now?
10:15Now, as we were saying, a careful reading of the text.
10:20Aim for the text to be neither too long nor too short, so that it doesn't leave you with enough material.
10:28At first I know you're going to struggle, it's not very simple, but that's how it is.
10:34We must begin, therefore, with little by little, allowing the Spirit to develop in our lives so that we can build a true meditation.
10:45It has to be a text; if you went down the path of the topic you want to meditate on, then just be sure that you have it there.
10:55I'm telling you, there are many lists on the internet where you can find prayers about faith, prayers about this, words from Holy Scripture about faith, about, well, whatever you want.
11:10And here comes a list of verses that you won't finish, okay?
11:15Then, this is where the method of St. Ignatius of Loyola comes in, which consists of what you read and this is where meditation comes in.
11:26Now, you're going to imagine that text you read, right?
11:31You close your Bible and now you're going to imagine the text, right?
11:35Jesus is preaching, very good, you imagine it and you let your imagination, look, you let your imagination play with the text.
11:46It's important, perhaps, to keep in mind who is in the scene, what they are doing, why they are doing it, to see if you are one of the characters in the scene, or maybe you are just watching.
12:07And if it's you, what are you doing?
12:10Or what would I like to do about what I'm seeing?
12:14And finally, in this situation, says St. Ignatius, check the promptings of the spirit.
12:24In other words, faced with this scene, what moves me from within?
12:31What awakens in my heart?
12:34If at any point, while you are doing this meditation, you feel drawn to it, at that moment stop everything, stop talking.
12:45Leave everything and move on to a loving dialogue, and this is where you will enter the third phase, prayer.
12:55Now, talk to God, Lord, why am I doing this? Lord, why am I not doing this? Lord, why am I feeling this? Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
13:04And when you feel that time has passed in prayer, now, in light of this loving conversation you have had with God, what did the Holy Spirit inspire in me?
13:14What do you want me to apply to my life? What specific actions should I take?
13:22You move on to the last step, which is action.
13:25In action, now, what needs to be done?
13:30And end your prayer with a thanksgiving, which will be all the longer the more intimate your conversation with God has been.
13:38End your prayer with an Our Father, a Hail Mary, and a Glory Be.
13:44And well, it will be very helpful if at the end of your meditation you write down what you meditated on, the resolutions that the Holy Spirit has invited you to make,
13:54Or the dialogue you had with God, this will be very useful to you, it will be very good for times of spiritual dryness.
14:02In other words, when you can't think of anything, when you're sad, that's when God has communicated with you, God has left you, and those will be your spiritual notes.
14:14Finally, try to maintain the central idea of your meditation throughout the day.
14:19Keep what gave you the most light, above all in your heart, and give thanks to God throughout the day.
14:29And so, this meditation and this prayer become a continuous life, we were saying, in attitudes, so that your whole life changes completely.
14:40Well, that's all for this short video.
14:44In our last video we will dedicate a little bit to doing an exercise, albeit a brief one, of what we have seen today.
14:53See you soon.