Raymond Studzinski

Pierced by Love

Christian Living

“The transformative power of lectio divina, the ancient practice of religious reading, is masterfully presented in Hans Boersma’s Pierced by Love. By drawing testimony from Christian spiritual writers across the centuries, he gives readers a vivid sense of what can happen to us as we read, meditate, pray, and contemplate a sacred text. This is a practice not for the faint-hearted for divine reading pierces to the core of our hearts, impels us to face truths about ourselves and embrace a cruciform existence. But as Boersma reminds us, the divine word is an arrow that wounds us with God’s love. His book suggests how lectio opens us to the hidden reality around us and delivers us from a world that has lost a sense of the transcendent. Both long-time practitioners of lectio and those who have just begun the practice will appreciate the rich perspective on lectio presented in this work.”