OLIVIA JAMES: I like how feminine and strong and disciplined she is.
DOM BENEDICT HARDY OSB: Ideally, and if possible, prayer should continue even as we work. And if while we work we find ourselves unable actually to praise God with our tongues, then we should continue to do so at least in our hearts.
SUGA HIGH: Stop scrolling through the comments and go do your work!!
DOM BENEDICT HARDY OSB: in addition to the hours spent praising God in Choir, Benedictine monks are to spend several hours each day at their lectio divina. For the ancients, this exercise of reading and learning Holy Scripture is an encounter with God in [H]is holy Word. Around a thousand years before the time of St. Ignatius of Loyola, in monastic usage the word meditatio refers above all to this manner of reading. So, we should think of Benedictine lectio divina as explicitly an exercise of prayer.
