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TAKE THE BIBLE TO THE BEACH THIS SUMMER: Ideas for your reading list

May 23, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 7 Comments

What are your plans for the summer? My calendar’s filling fast with weekend trips and garden strolls and sitting (in the shade!) by the water. But work is lighter, and so are the days—leaving time for walks and books and doing nothing, if I want. Just seeing “Memorial Day” coming up next week makes my […]

Filed Under: Bible Reading, Study, Prayer & Lectio Divina Tagged With: bible reading plans, lectio divina

SACRED MUSIC: A WINDOW TO HEAVEN

February 24, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 2 Comments

Have you ever heard angels singing? I think I have for real, once at a charismatic prayer meeting. But earlier this week, I swear the angels came down and joined the choir at Mass. Or maybe it was we who were lifted up into heaven, “joining our voices with angels and archangels” as the liturgy […]

Filed Under: Prayer & Lectio Divina, Uncategorized, Women of the Bible

RECEIVING THE WORD: A Lesson from Football

February 7, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 6 Comments

COVID has put a damper on our usual Super Bowl festivities. Three years ago, when I first posted this, we crowded with family and friends into the den, feasting and celebrating an amazing Eagles win! This year, it’s just two of us. But I’ll be watching Tyreek Hill as closely as I watched Alshon Jeffery […]

Filed Under: Prayer & Lectio Divina Tagged With: lectio divina

PRAYER IN DESPERATE TIMES

October 13, 2020 By Sarah Christmyer Leave a Comment

“Desperate times call for desperate measures. Would you consider prayer a desperate measure?” I wasn’t expecting that question at the start of this interview on “prayer in desperate times”! Ben Akers, who is Director of Formed at the Augustine Institute in Denver, invited me to talk on Formed Now! about how the Psalms teach us to pray when times are rough. The […]

Filed Under: Prayer & Lectio Divina, Scripture Reflection Tagged With: Interview, prayer, Psalms

ROSH HASHANAH, A CALL TO REPENTANCE

September 18, 2020 By Sarah Christmyer 1 Comment

I’ve heard it said that the shofar (ram’s horn trumpet), with its curving shape, represents the way a repentant heart “bends” before the Lord in supplication. When it’s blown, it has a unique sound that can trumpet victory or a mournful wail. In the liturgy of Rosh Hashanah, today’s Jewish “Feast of Trumpets,” three types […]

Filed Under: Holidays and Holy Days, Prayer & Lectio Divina, Scripture Reflection Tagged With: forgiveness, Mercy

THE POWER OF PERSISTENT PRAYER: ST. MONICA

August 27, 2020 By Sarah Christmyer 4 Comments

“Pray without ceasing,” St. Paul urged his fellow Christians in 1 Thessalonians 5:17. Today we honor a woman who did just that: St. Monica, who prayed through years of tears and against all odds for her pagan husband and wayward son. That son, who became Saint Augustine, later wrote gratefully of his mother: “She said […]

Filed Under: Prayer & Lectio Divina, Women of the Bible Tagged With: Mary and the Saints, prayer

HOW TO GROW AS A DISCIPLE WITH SCRIPTURE

January 25, 2020 By Sarah Christmyer 1 Comment

All over the world this week, Scripture is being specially celebrated by Catholics in the first-ever “Sunday of the Word of God.” Parishes will mark the day in various ways. Many will enthrone the Bible in their churches. They will honor and pray for people who teach and translate and study and proclaim God’s word. […]

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THE WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, & WHY OF POWERFUL PRAYER

January 18, 2020 By Sarah Christmyer 6 Comments

Have you ever been so buried with worry or sadness that you couldn’t move? I guess some people go running, or chop wood, or get busy doing anything to take their mind off their trouble, but I tend to freeze. My mind shuts down except the part that circles around the problem, and around, and […]

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RECEIVING THE GAZE OF JESUS: an exercise in visio divina

December 21, 2019 By Sarah Christmyer 5 Comments

Let’s “come into the Word” today by doing a little visio divina — reflecting on a painting of the Word-made-flesh. It’s getting close to Christmas, and I don’t know about you, but my brain is too full to read another thing. There is something about a quiet gaze that speaks to my heart right now. […]

Filed Under: Holidays and Holy Days, Prayer & Lectio Divina

MOVIE NIGHT: A Lesson in Prayer from “Little Big Man”

July 28, 2019 By Sarah Christmyer Leave a Comment

Near the end of Little Big Man, the 1970 film with Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, and Chief Dan George, the aged medicine man—who has survived the massacre at Wounded Knee and seen victory at the Battle of Little Big Horn—prepares to die. On a high, lonely mountain he sings and dances before the god he […]

Filed Under: Prayer & Lectio Divina, Scripture Reflection

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Sarah Christmyer writes and speaks about Scripture and the Catholic faith with the goal of helping people meet Jesus in his Word. “The Bible isn’t just a book about God or instructions for a good life; it’s a place to meet God and be changed by him,” she says. Her love of Scripture fuels her writing of Bible studies and related books; her teaching of Philadelphia seminarians; her speaking at conferences and retreats; and writing for blogs such as this one. “Come Into the Word” draws people into the Bible and encourages and equips them to explore it on their own.

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