Lectio Divina: For Fifth Week in January - Cycle C

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

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

JESUS WAS STANDING BY THE LAKE OF GENNESARET./

HE GOT INTO SIMON’S BOAT AND TAUGHT THE PEOPLE FROM THE BOAT./

THEN HE SAID TO SIMON, “PUT OUT INTO THE DEEP/

AND LET DOWN YOUR NETS FOR A CATCH./

SIMON REPLIED, “TEACHER, WE TOILED ALL NIGHT AND TOOK NOTHING!/

BUT AT YOUR WORD, I WILL LET DOWN THE NETS.”/.

WHEN THEY HAD DONE THIS, THEY ENCLOSED A GREAT LOAD OF FISH./

BECAUSE THEIR NETS WERE BREAKING,/

THEY CALLED THOSE IN THE OTHER BOAT TO COME AND HELP THEM./

THEY FILLED BOTH BOATS SO THAT THEY BEGAN TO SINK./

SIMON PETER WAS ASTONISHED, AS WERE ALL WHO WERE WITH HIM./

AFTER THAT, THEY LEFT EVERYTHING AND FOLLOWED HIM./