In reading this assignment I found a few things that interested me. First, McAloon talks about how Lectio Divinia works. I had never heard of lectio divinia before I came to school here. My best friend Bryan was the first person to explain it to me. I found it very intriguing to say the least. The first time I tried it was a great experience and profound. It helps to understand scripture and to focus on reading and praying. Focusing on reading the Bible and praying in difficult to me because I have an undiagnosed case of A.D.D. haha, but lectio divinia helps me to clear my mind and focus on what I’m doing. Reading a text thoroughly, running it over and over in your mind, is how we get something from the text that is being read. Say your studying for a test and you think just because you read over your notes you are prepared for the test. You take the test and afterwards you forget everything that you studied because all you were doing was memorizing and regurgitating information. I’m not saying to use lectio divinia to study, but then again I am, albeit, a different form of it.
Moving on. When it comes to poetry some poems are harder to understand than others. I tend to shy away from poems that hard to understand. My favorite poem is called For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon, and it is about the soldiers who died in the First World War. It is not a difficult poem to understand or to read. My favorite passage reads,
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.”
I think this passage can be applied to all soldiers that fall in battle because we must never for get their sacrifice.
I like how lectio helps to focus the mind. It has always been hard for me to concentrate on scripture. Lectio makes me focus and think about what I'm reading. And it makes me do that more than once.
ReplyDeleteI like how you relate it to studying for a test because it’s true when you study for a test you don’t just read it once and leave it. You study it and read it over and over again and think about it so that you can understand how it works.
ReplyDeleteI love the quote you gave from the poem "For the Fallen"...I think we should read some poems like that in our class sometime.
ReplyDeleteI agree with how when we are studying we just want to know it and then go to the test and then after wards we know nothing. I don't really know about doing lectio with studying because I still don't know about doing it with other texts, but if we reread it like we do with lectio I think we would get more out of it.
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