A Reading from the Book of Genesis
The Lord God took Abram outside and said: Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so, he added, shall your descendants be.
Abram put his faith in the LORD, who credited it to him as an act of righteousness.
He then said to him, I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as a possession.
“O Lord GOD,” he asked, “how will I know that I shall possess it?”
He answered him: Bring me a three-year-old Heifer, a three-year-old she-Goat, a three-year-old ram, a Turtledove, and a young Pigeon.
Abram brought him all these, split them in two, and placed each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not cut up.
Birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram stayed with them.
As the sun was about to set, a trance fell upon Abram, and a deep, terrifying darkness enveloped him.
When the sun had set and it was dark, there appeared a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch, which passed between those pieces.
It was on that occasion that the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Great River, the Euphrates.
The Word of the Lord

To Proclaim the word of the Gospel takes the reader through the traditional process of reading, meditating, praying, and contemplating bible scriptures.
These readings help the reader explore the sacred texts with greater attention and allow the Word to permeate their mind and imagination more deeply.
In Christianity, Lectio Divina (Latin for "Divine Reading") is a traditional Benedictine practice of scriptural reading, meditation and prayer intended to promote communion with God and to increase the knowledge of God's word.
It does not treat scripture as texts to be studied, but as the living word.
The Lectio Divina Bible Study series is suitable for individual, small group, and parish/church use.