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“Without resting, his mouth ruminated the sacred words.”
Of John of Gorze it was claimed that the murmur of his
lips pronouncing the Psalms resembled the buzzing of a
bee. To meditate is to attach oneself closely to the
sentence being recited and weigh all its words in order to
sound the depths of their full meaning. It means
assimilating the content of a text by means of a kind of
mastication which releases its full flavor. It means, as St.
Augustine, St. Gregory, John of Fécamp and others say in
an untranslatable expression, to taste it with the
palatum cordis or in ore cordis . All this activity is,
necessarily, a prayer; the lectio divina is a prayerful
reading. Thus, the Cistercian, Arnoul of Bohériss, will give
this advice:
When he reads, let him seek for savor, not science.