Imagining The Vine and The Branches: John 15:1-11: Imaginative Contemplation

Contemplative at Home

A 21-minute audio guided meditation in John’s Gospel, John 15:1-11, using Imaginative Contemplation.

We continue our series in John 15 with an imaginative contemplation on the vine and branches, exploring the notion of abiding in God.

Imaginative Contemplation invites us to see the scripture in new ways, to attend to it with different parts of our mind and heart so that the Lord might reveal fresh insights through it. Imaginative Contemplation is a gift of Ignatian spirituality.

This is the third of three meditations on John 15 for July 2024, and probably my own favourite. I hope that it deepens and enlivens your understanding of what it might mean to abide in Christ, to abide in Love.

In this meditation I read John 15:1-11 (I say “verses one to fifteen” but it’s actually eleven – apologies!), and then we move in to a guided meditation on the verses. If you find it difficult to pay attention to every word of the scripture reading don’t worry – you’ll hear the verses you need to hear.

All blessings as you pray.

Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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All music by Pete Hatch.

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