{"id":941,"date":"2026-06-03T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/?p=941"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:53:12","slug":"reflecting-and-meditating-on-the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/2026\/06\/03\/reflecting-and-meditating-on-the-word-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting and Meditating on the Word of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>Reflecting<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>meditating<\/strong>\u201d on the Word of God can overlap, but in Catholic practice they\u2019re not the same emphasis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Church\u2019s classic prayer with Scripture &#8211; <strong>lectio divina<\/strong> &#8211; the process moves through stages: <strong>reading (lectio)<\/strong>, <strong>meditating (meditatio)<\/strong>, <strong>prayer (oratio)<\/strong>, and <strong>contemplation (contemplatio)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1wMP9FXR6lDVPpyAjxsMhGm72NqaXl0jN\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reflecting and Meditating<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReflecting\u201d and \u201cmeditating\u201d on the Word of God can overlap, but in Catholic practice they\u2019re not the same emphasis. In the Church\u2019s classic prayer with Scripture &#8211; lectio divina &#8211; the process moves through stages: reading (lectio), meditating (meditatio), prayer (oratio), and contemplation (contemplatio). Reflecting and Meditating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kateri.veym.ca\/emmaus01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}