“We can do nothing without Him; it is He who achieves our works in us, and yet not entirely without us.”

-Guigo II, The Ladder of Monks

Lesson 1

In this lecture, Fr. Hans Boersma provides a framework for divine reading and introduces the four rungs of lectio divina.

PSALM 1

Happy are those

who do not follow the advice of the wicked

or take the path that sinners tread

or sit in the seat of scoffers,

but their delight is in the law of the Lord,

and on his law they meditate day and night.

They are like trees

planted by streams of water,

which yield their fruit in its season,

and their leaves do not wither.

In all that they do, they prosper.

The wicked are not so

but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment

nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous,

for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.