Loading...A Lectio Divina Meditation, using a sacred story shared by Judaism and Christianity, will take place at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel at Christ Church Cathedral, 421 S. Second St., Louisville.
Lectio Divina, which literally means "Divine Reading," dates back to the Middle Ages. Hosted by Interfaith Paths to Peace, meditation leaders will use a modified form following four steps (reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation) to explore the Passover story.
A brief synopsis of the Passover Story will be the meditation text:
Then God sent one final, terrible plague to the land of Egypt. He sent his Angel of Death to visit every single household in Egypt, and take away the firstborn child. But Moses had warned the Hebrews, and told them to mark their doors with a special sign. So, that night, when the Angel of Death came to Egypt, he passed over the houses with the special sign. But the Angel of Death did not spare a single Egyptian family that night, and took even the Pharaoh's son. In despair the Pharaoh told Moses to take his people and to leave Egypt forever. Moses and his people packed their belongings and left Egypt as fast as they could, before Ramses changed his mind. When the Pharaoh realized that Moses and the Israelites had actually left Egypt, he sent his army after them, to capture them and bring them back. The Pharaoh's army pursued the Israelites eastwards to the Sea of Reeds, a papyrus lake, which God enabled the Hebrews to cross safely. But the Egyptian army was engulfed by the waters of the lake and each and every Egyptian soldier perished.
