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.

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LOVE the Word® Talk #1

Alleluia… Christ is risen! Don’t you love that we get to celebrate for 50 whole days?! My show break continu ...

LOVE the Word® Talk #2

Talk number two of a set that I did last month in St. Louis. This Week’s Video Episode Resources Catholic Women f ...

01_LOVE the Word® Introduction – Premium Content

Pope Francis called Mary the “mother of listening,” because she didn’t just hear the word (in our case read, also) ...

02_Lectio Without the Latin – Premium Content

Lectio divina is Latin for divine reading. In the 12th century, a Carthusian monk named Guigo formally described and rec ...

03_Listen – Premium Content

How do I listen with small children? Is listening simply reading the scriptures? If I read passage after passage, book a ...

04_Observe: How Do I Discern? – Premium Content

While Mary gives us the  model to strive for as we LOVE the Word™, Jonah is likely a more realistic example for us to ...

05_V Is for Verbalize – Premium Content

Depending on where we are in the stages of prayer, we will “verbalize” differently, according to St. John of ...

06_V – Visual Expression and the Artist – Premium Content

“Every genuine inspiration contains some tremor of that ‘breath’ with which the Creator Spirit suffuse ...

07_Entrust, What Is Faith?

Faith cannot simply be belief – in God, or in a set of teachings – for “even the demons believe and tremble” (Ja ...

08_#LOVEtheWordtakeaway

“You are invited to an encounter with Jesus, Word of God made flesh, as an event of grace that runs through the re ...

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