LOVE the Word® Tutorials

God is speaking to His church, to you, every single day through the daily readings. The best way to begin hearing God speak, experiencing His presence, and discerning His will for your life is through the daily readings of the Church. You can find them for free on Universalis.com, the USCCB website, or Laudate app.

I use the Magnificat magazine every day.

We read the daily readings of the Church prayerfully, the way Our Lady teaches us, in order to hear God speak to our hearts about all that concerns us. I call her method LOVE the Word®.

Called “the best modernization of lectio” by the former Associate Publisher for Thomas Nelson Publishing, LOVE the Word® is the ancient practice of lectio divina (sacred Scripture reading), without the Latin.

Pope Francis called Mary the “mother of listening,” because she didn’t just hear the word – in our case read, also – she understood how to interpret it in light of her own relationships, circumstances, and habits. Pope Benedict XVI called her the “model of prayer,” and said her unique holiness was the fruit of her way of observing, or pondering, relationships and circumstances in her heart with God.

Modeled on the Annunciation, the LOVE the Word® method invites Our Lady to guide each of us in her own personal prayer practice: L – listen, O – observe, V – verbalize, E – entrust. We learn how to LOVE the Word® like Mary, from Mary. She teaches us to interpret the word we hear and read through the landscape of our lives. You can begin today by reading the daily readings. You can also practice the LOVE the Word® method via email with Sonja, each week right here.