Disputations called my attention to a Benedictine writing about (among other things) St. Benedict's Rule, lectio divina, and Dominican study. He says,
[T]he Dominican seeks Truth, and Jesus said: "I am the Truth."A Dominican could be reading virtually anything
and still know that every bit of real, objective truth garnered from
that reading would be yet another shard, no matter how small, in the
infinite mosaic of the face of Christ. That is a mosaic none of us
shall ever complete in this life, but oh, how much more familiar He
shall seem to us when we meet Him because of it!
From an earlier post, a Thomistic reading strategy:
Ask yourself,
How can this be interpreted so as to be true? Or if not,
How can this be reinterpreted so as to be true? Or if not,
What in it is true? or
What truth can be extracted from it?
This has greatly improved and enriched my experience of reading literature.
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