Joshua Maier’s Reviews > The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture > Status Update

I'm sure there's someone out there who finds and enumeration of the genres of monastic letters interesting. Unfortunately, it is not I.

The monastic meditatio consists of an oral and audible (even if whispered) reading and memorizing of the sacred page. This "repeated mastication of the divine words" inscribes them on the body and the soul as a sort of spiritual nutrition. (78)

After spending four years of college primarily applying my intellect to the Christian faith, it's truly nurturing to my soul to read about monks whose sole pursuit was the practice of faith unto eternal life. I have a lot to learn from them.