Lectio Divina: For the 5th Sunday in Lent (Palm Sunday)

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM PAUL'S LETTER TO THE PHILLIPIANS (FIRST READER ONLY.)

LET THE SAME MIND BE IN YOU THAT WAS IN CHRIST JESUS./

THOUGH HE WAS IN THE FORM OF GOD/

HE DID NOT REGARD EQUALITY WITH GOD SOMETHING TO BE CLUNG TO./

RATHER, HE EMPTIED HIMSELF, BECOMING A SERVANT/

BEING BORN IN HUMAN LIKENESS./

AND BEING FOUND IN HUMAN FORM, HE HUMBLED HIMSELF/

AND BECAME OBEDIENT TO THE POINT OF DEATH/

EVEN DEATH ON A CROSS./