Bible Study Evangelista - How to Pray Like Mary

Sonja Corbitt is a vital Catholic voice – a best-selling author, speaker, and broadcaster  – who produces high-impact, uplifting multimedia Bible studies.

A Carolina native who was raised as a Southern Baptist, Corbitt converted to Catholicism and served as director of religious education at St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Gallatin, Tennessee, and as executive director of Risen Radio in Lebanon, Tennessee.

Sonja is the riveting weekly host of the Bible Study Evangelista Show on CatholicTV and radio. She is a regular guest on EWTN; writes for The Great Adventure Bible Study Blog; Catholic Digest; Catechist Magazine; and Magnificat magazine; and speaks around the world.

Sonja is in formation as a Third Order Carmelite, a columnist at The Great Adventure Bible Study blog, a regular contributor to Magnificat, and a best-selling author who also wrote for the Gallatin News Examiner and Oremus, the Westminster Cathedral magazine. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, Bob, with whom she home schools two sons.

In this episode, Sonja talks about her latest book, How to Pray Like Mary, and how Mary led her to write this beautifully insightful book, soaked in Scripture and other Catholic documents.  She gives us a prayer method called LOVE the Word, a modern-take of Lectio Divina, that models Mary’s way of praying.  Sonja also gives intimate details about how her conversion journey, while holding Mary’s hand, has helped her overcome deep-seated wounds and impulses while lighting the fire of evangelization in her heart.

How to reach Sonja:

Website: https://www.biblestudyevangelista.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biblestudyevangelista/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sonjacorbitt

Purchase How To Pray Like Mary book: https://www.biblestudyevangelista.com/shop/signed-pray-like-mary-book/

Podcast The Bible Study Evangelista:  http://breadboxmedia.com/sonja-corbitt/

 

 

Category: Blog, LOVE the Word® Tag: Bible reading, eucharist, holy spirit, mary

 

Our last two popes have called Mary the “model of prayer” and “mother of listening.” Why is that? And how can we follow her lead in deepening our prayer so that it is more powerful and fruitful?

 

Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Theresa VdP (the extra lift is so helpful!); Lucille M; Patricia G; Michelle R; Yvette K; Mary Jo K-B; and Paul C for loving and lifting me!

LOVE the Word® is a Bible study method based on Mary’s own practice: lectio without the Latin.

L – Listen (Receive the Word.)

Click here to listen to this interview with Catholic Servant Podcast.

O – Observe (Connect the passage to your life and recent events.)

Where do you need to love the Word more?

V – Verbalize (Pray about your thoughts and emotions.)

Remembering that He loves you and that you are in His presence, talk to God about the particulars of your O – Observe step. You may want to write your reflections in your LOVE the Word® journal. Or, get a free journal page and guide in the right-hand margin.

E – Entrust (May it be done to me according to your word!)

Jesus, I trust in You! + Amen.

*LOVE the Word® exercises are offered according to FIAT: the four personalities, or “prayer forms,” explored in Prayer and Temperament, by Chester Michael and Marie Norrisey: Franciscan, Ignatian, Augustinian, and Thomistic: FIAT! These prayer forms correspond to the Myers-Briggs personality types.

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