| The learning of a methodology of lectio divina, and through theoretical information and practical exercises it seeks to train the Sisters to sapiential listening of the Word and a believing reading of the realty. |
| If we pursue this seductive analogy, the second book of Solomon, which reveals our place in the cosmos, is a mine of cosmological or sapiential teaching which may be said to represent the soul of scripture. |
| The Mediterranean is perhaps the most sapiential part of the world, and its history flows in this direction. |
| Of these at least the first, Genesis, has a notably familial and sapiential character. |
| It would be possible to draw up a list of charisms, focussing for the most part on that of leadership, starting from the sapiential literature of Proverbs, Wisdom, Ecclesiastes of Qoheleth and Ecclesiasticus of Ben Sirach. |
| At this point Mother Ballarin recalled Saint Catherine of Siena, who «offered to the word the sapiential mercy of the testimony of her faith». |
