Christian meditation

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Christian meditation

1eschator83
mayo 6, 2021, 10:54 am

I find myself rethinking almost daily the post by John5918 in Catholic Tradition forum/ Pope Francis on 4/29/21 describing the Pope's General Address the prior day on the subject of meditation. By a very curious coincidence I had decided to begin a new form of meditation that same day (being unaware of the Pope's address) following a book by Fr John Kersten entitled Bible Meditations for Every Day.
The Papal address raises a number of questions for me, beginning with his teaching that all prayer as well as meditation should seek an encounter with our Lord Jesus Christ, which can result through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. These comments are reported in a news report from an organization affiliated with EWTN, and may not exactly reflect the Pope's Address. I suppose I should next search the Vatican web on this. Further into the article there is a somewhat cryptic reference to another encounter with the Transcendent Other which is God.
I have posted elsewhere on my questions about addressing prayer to the Persons of the Trinity, or our Holy Mother, or Saints or Angels, and received some wonderful comments. I pray readers will comment here on their meditation practices and whether they plan to reassess them.

2eschator83
Ago 3, 2021, 11:00 pm

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2021/documents/papa-france...
With luck this link will connect to Pope Francis' General address on meditation as reported by the Holy See. In the meantime I've been struggling with a lot of reading on related subjects:
Lectio Divina by Basil Pennington OCSO
The Cloud of Unknowing Anonymous
Personality Fulfillment in the Spiritual Life by Adrian van Kamm CSSp
The Early Church by Henry Chadwick
I was surprised by Pennington's assertion that ancient Jewish and early Christian emphasis on meditative Spirituality was essentially minimized during the scholastic era until restored in large part by protestants. I'd be most grateful for clarification.