Those who seek God need to train their ears and listen to His message in the Word. Through personal and communal prayerful reading, silence, and contemplation, the Word becomes life itself.
“You will certainly find in the Scriptures many remedies against your affliction, many medicines to lead you from perdition to health: the mysteries surrounding death and resurrection…” (a18) Letter 46, p. 16
“Divided into two groups, they sing antiphonally with one another, thus invigorating themselves in meditation on the Scriptures…” (n7) Letter 207, p. 250
“If the Scriptures have taught us what a good thing charity is, we will perceive conversation with a person who loves us as something invaluable…” (z1) Letter 194, p. 327
The quotations are taken from: Letters of the illustrious Saint Basil of Caesarea – Epistolary – Edition, Sisters of the Order of Saint Basil the Great, 2021