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This results in more than a visual memory of the written
words. What results is a muscular memory of the words
pronounced and an aural memory of the words heard. The
meditatio consists in applying oneself with attention to
this exercise in total memorization; it is, therefore,
inseparable from the lectio. It is what inscribes, so to
speak, the sacred text in the body and in the soul.
This repeated mastication of the divine words is
sometimes described by use of the theme of spiritual
nutrition. In this case the vocabulary is borrowed from
eating, from digestion, and from the particular form of
digestion belonging to ruminants. For this reason, reading
and meditation are sometimes described by the very
expressive word ruminatio . For example, in praising a
monk who prayed constantly Peter the Venerable cried: