Lectio Divina: For the 4th Week in Ordinary Time

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS ACCORDING TO MARK (FIRST READER ONLY)

THE APOSTLES RETURNED TO JESUS/

AND REPORTED TO HIM ALL THEY HAD DONE AND
TAUGHT./

HE SAID TO THEM, "COME BY YOURSELVES TO AN OUT-OF-THE-WAY PLACE/

AND REST AWHILE."/

PEOPLE WERE COMING AND GOING IN GREAT NUMBERS/

MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM EVEN TO EAT./

SO THEY WENT OFF IN THE BOAT TO A DESERTED PLACE./

PEOPLE SAW THEM LEAVING/

AND HASTENED ON FOOT TO THE PLACE/

ARRIVING AHEAD OF THEM./

WHEN HE SAW THE CROWD, JESUS PITIED THEM,/

FOR THEY WHERE LIKE SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD;/

AND HE BEGAN TO TEACH THEM AT GREAT LENGTH./