Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 491.
(Youcat
answer) The Bible is like a wellspring of prayer. To pray with the Word of God
means to use the words and events of the Bible for one’s own prayer. “To be
ignorant of Scripture is to be ignorant of Christ” (St. Jerome).
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 2652)
The Holy Spirit is the living water
"welling up to eternal life" (Jn 4:14) in the heart that prays. It is
he who teaches us to accept it at its source: Christ. Indeed in the Christian
life there are several wellsprings where Christ awaits us to enable us to drink
of the Holy Spirit. (CCC 2654) The spiritual writers, paraphrasing Matthew 7:7, summarize in this way the
dispositions of the heart nourished by the word of God in prayer "Seek in
reading and you will find in meditating; knock in mental prayer and it will be
opened to you by contemplation" (Guigo the Carthusian, Scala Paradisi: PL 40, 998).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Sacred Scripture, especially the Psalms and
the New Testament, are a valuable treasury; in it we find the most beautiful
and most powerful prayers of the Judeo-Christian world. Reciting these prayers
unites us with millions of people from all times and cultures who have prayed,
but above all with Christ himself, who is present in all these prayers.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 2653)
The Church "forcefully and specially exhorts all the Christian faithful…
to learn 'the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ' (Phil 3:8) by frequent
reading of the divine Scriptures.... Let them remember, however, that prayer
should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that a dialogue takes
place between God and man. For 'we speak to him when we pray; we listen to him
when we read the divine oracles"' (DV 25; cf. Phil 3:8; St. Ambrose, De officiis ministrorum 1, 20,88: PL 16,
50).
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