Lectio Divina: For the 24th Week In Ordinary Time

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS (FIRST READER ONLY)

ALTHOUGH HE WAS IN THE FORM OF GOD/

JESUS DID NOT REGARD EQUALITY WITH GOD /

SOMETHING TO BE GRASPED AT./

RATHER, HE EMPTIED HIMSELF/

TAKING THE FORM OF A SERVANT/

MADE IN HUMAN LIKENESS./

HE HUMBLED HIMSELF/

BECOMING OBEDIENT TO DEATH/

EVEN DEATH ON A CROSS./

BECAUSE OF THIS, HE IS GREATLY EXALTED/

AND GIVEN THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY OTHER NAME./

THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS, EVERY KNEE SHOULD BEND/

AND EVERY TONGUE CONFESS/

THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD./

TO THE GLORY OF GOD./