In November 2023, I was in my first year as grand knight for St. Augustine’s Council 7273, in the northern New York town of Peru, when an article in the Knights of Columbus’ Columbia magazine piqued my interest. The article, titled “At the Heart of Our Mission,” described a pilot of a new supreme council […]
In 1965, one of the principal documents of the Second Vatican Council, “Dei verbum (Word of God),” emphasized the use of lectio divina or divine reading, as a method of praying with scripture. Both Pope Benedict XVI and the Synod of 2008 reiterated the use of scripture for prayer and suggested this ancient practice of […]