Lectio the Liturgy

Lectio the Liturgy

Give a woman a phrase, and she's going to want a visual to go with it. That's how it all started. You know those times - when you ask God to show you something amazing in Scripture. One weekend during Easter of 2016, the only thing that popped off the page of Scripture was "so that". So what was I supposed to do with that? "Nothing" was my first reaction because really, what kind of conjunction is that, anyway? Next week, another "so that" appeared. THEN, I went home and started diagramming Scripture, and I found myself, each day, diagramming a new verse. This method made the Scripture, and the Prayers of the Liturgy come alive. (p.s. "So that" is not like an equal sign.) I am a wife, mom, and a convert to the Catholic Faith. I love to read, travel, teach, and share the love of God. Tea and Scripture make for the best mornings, don't they? DISCLAIMER: No "grammar police" here! I have rediscovered my passion for diagramming sentences and in doing so, have found a whole new insight into prayer because I've found joy in the words.

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July 14, 2025 4 mins
In this week’s prayer, we ask God to show favor to us. We want him to satisfy our hunger, which is for more. If you want to do more for God, you need more of God.
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Jesus tells us that He is the way, the truth, and the life. However, Jesus can use us to point others to the Way and to be the light on the path when we learn that to be a Christian isn’t a way of life, it is a life to be lived, and that life is His. LectiotheLiturgy.com https://juliestorr.substack.com
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What if you were standing in line waiting for our punishment for sin and Jesus cuts in front of you? If you say “yes” to his offer, you would be raised up, set free from the slavery to sin, filed with holy joy and eternal gladness. Not a bad trade.
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June 23, 2025 5 mins
I hadn’t really thought about the significance of the Solemnity of Saints Peter & Paul before, but their participation in the history of the Church is remarkable. Both said “yes” in their own way. Both even had a name change. Both gave up they way they were to become what God was calling them to be. Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us so that we, too, may “yes” to God’s call to each of us.
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When we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood, we venerate the precious gift that paid the price of our redemption, the body and blood of Jesus. However, we also should consider the words of St. Augustine, “If you receive them well, you are yourselves what you receive.”
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June 11, 2025 5 mins
It’s easy to get lost and give up when trying to understand the Trinity. This week, push that aside and focus on the words, “God sent.”
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What’s the longest distance in the Christian life? The 12” from the head to the heart. This is the distance it takes to move from knowing to believing.
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May 5, 2025 4 mins
3 definitions to get to know I’ve been told the English Language falls short of words. After looking up words in this prayer, while definitions originate in Latin and Hebrew, I believe that. Look, pasture, and redeemed are three words that may surprise you.
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Holy Communion is an amazing gift. By its very nature, which is Jesus, it can put our sin to death and fill us the Glory of God.
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April 21, 2025 4 mins
This week, as we join the Church in praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet, we need to remember that in order to say, “Eternal Father, I offer you...” we first need to receive.
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God is calling us to great things in this day in time! We just need to be ready to move from me to we.
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April 8, 2025 4 mins
What to do with more palm branches? Use them like they are intended to be used! Let’s wear them out before Palm Sunday next year.
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When a non-Catholic attends their first mass there are things they expect and things that catches them by surprise. The first time I attended a Mass, I was expecting incense and Latin, instead there was this prayer in the middle of the Lord’s prayer. It’s a good one.
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Sometimes it feels like when you’re a convert to the Catholic Faith, you are bilingual. “Don’t Catholics pray ‘The Lord’s Prayer?’” “Yes, but we call it the ‘Our Father.‘” When this mix of Catholics & Protestants pray, there’s often a tension in the air when they get to that part - the one about “For Thine is the Kingdom…” Thanks for praying with me, Julie
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The words right, just, duty, and salvation just go right past sometimes, but these words pack a punch when they’re all in the prayer of the Preface at Mass.
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We hear it at every mass, but have you ever thought about what it means when we pray through Him, with Him, and in Him?
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March 3, 2025 5 mins
During the season of Lent this year, I thought it would be a good time to look at some prayers of the Mass that are rarely used or are prayed frequently and yet they have much to teach us if we would spend time meditating on them. I’m going to begin with the Collect for the Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Ordinary time does not mean that nothing is going on, Ordinary Time just means that it’s not Lent, Easter, Advent, or Christmas. ...
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What if we really would find peace in the way God rules the world? How would that change the Church? It’s a thought that needs to come to fruition. We should bring the good news of the justice of God to the world like it’s our job - because it is. Thanks for praying with me, Julie LectioTheLiturgy.com
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The Collect this week contains within it a challenge. We pray that our words AND our deeds are always pleasing to God. The Christian life is not always an either/or. Actually, it’s mostly a both/and and this is one of them. It is true, St. Francis never said to use words when necessary. He didn’t live that, either. He used words a lot. He even preached to the birds. Thanks for praying with me, Julie LectioTheLiturgy.com
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As I meditated on this prayer, I asked God what would be a good example to use. He told me, "washing windows." The more I thought about God’s suggestion to see this prayer as washing windows, the more I know that He is right. A clean window (that’s us) lets in more light and warmth (that’s God), while it also lets others see Him shine when they look through us. Thanks for praying with me, Julie LectioTheLiturgy.com
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