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Guigo II was a Carthusian monk and the 9th prior of Grande Chartreuse monastery in the 12th century. He died about 1193, and is distinct from Guigo I, the 5th prior of the same monastery, and the late thirteenth-century Carthusian Guigo de Ponte.^[1]

Surnamed "angelic", he is considered the first writer in the western tradition to consider stages of prayer as a ladder which leads to a closer mystic communion with God. His most famous book Scala Claustralium (The Ladder of Monks) is subtitled "a letter on the contemplative life" and is considered the first description of methodical prayer in the western mystical tradition.^[2]

Guigo named the four steps of this "ladder" of Lectio Divina prayer, a practice which continues daily in contemporary Benedictine ritual meditation,^[3] with the Latin terms lectio, meditatio, oratio, and contemplatio. In Guigo's four stages one first reads, which leads to think about (i.e. meditate on) the significance of the text; that process in turn leads the person to respond in prayer as the third stage. The fourth stage is when the prayer, in turn, points to the gift of quiet stillness in the presence of God, called contemplation.^[4]^[5]

References

^ A history of Christian spirituality: an analytical introduction by Urban Tigner Holmes 2002 ISBN 0-8192-1914-2 page 55
^ An Anthology of Christian mysticism by Harvey D. Egan 1991 ISBN 0-8146-6012-6 pages 207-208
^ Marett-Crosby, Anthony (2003). A Benedictine Handbook. Collegeville Township, Stearns County, Minnesota: Liturgical Press. ISBN 0-8146-2790-0; ISBN 978-0-814-62790-7. First published in 2003 by the Canterbury Press Norwich.
^ Christian spirituality: themes from the tradition by Lawrence S. Cunningham, Keith J. Egan 1996 ISBN 0-8091-3660-0 page 38
^ The Oblate Life by Gervase Holdaway, 2008 ISBN 0-8146-3176-2 page 109

Bibliography

Guigo II; Edmund Colledge; James Walsh. The Ladder of Monks: A Letter on the Contemplative Life and Twelve Meditations. Image Books. 1978. ISBN 0-385-13596-3; ISBN 978-0-385-13596-2. {{cite book}}: line feed character in |title= at position 21 (help)

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-'''Guigo II''' was a [[Carthusian]] monk and the 9th [[prior]] of [[Grande Chartreuse]] monastery in the 12th century. He died about 1193, and is distinct from [[Guigo I]], the 5th prior of the same monastery.<ref>''A history of Christian spirituality: an analytical introduction'' by Urban Tigner Holmes 2002 ISBN 0-8192-1914-2 page 55</ref>
+'''Guigo II''' was a [[Carthusian]] monk and the 9th [[prior]] of [[Grande Chartreuse]] monastery in the 12th century. He died about 1193, and is distinct from [[Guigo I]], the 5th prior of the same monastery, and the late thirteenth-century Carthusian [[Guigo de Ponte]].<ref>''A history of Christian spirituality: an analytical introduction'' by Urban Tigner Holmes 2002 ISBN 0-8192-1914-2 page 55</ref>
-Surnamed "angelic" he was the 9th [[prior]] of the [[monastery]]. He is considered the first writer in the western tradition to consider stages of [[prayer]] as a ladder which leads to a closer mystic communion with God. His most famous book ''The Ladder of Monks'' is subtitled "a letter on the contemplative life" and is considered the first description of methodical prayer in the western mystical tradition.<ref>''An Anthology of Christian mysticism'' by Harvey D. Egan 1991 ISBN 0-8146-6012-6 pages 207-208</ref>
+Surnamed "angelic", he is considered the first writer in the western tradition to consider stages of [[prayer]] as a ladder which leads to a closer mystic communion with God. His most famous book ''Scala Claustralium'' (''The Ladder of Monks'') is subtitled "a letter on the contemplative life" and is considered the first description of methodical prayer in the western mystical tradition.<ref>''An Anthology of Christian mysticism'' by Harvey D. Egan 1991 ISBN 0-8146-6012-6 pages 207-208</ref>
 Guigo named the four steps of this "ladder" of [[Lectio Divina]] prayer, a practice which continues daily in contemporary Benedictine ritual meditation,<ref>{{cite book|first=Anthony|last=Marett-Crosby|title=A Benedictine Handbook|url=http://books.google.it/books?id=qJ3pmovjCocC&hl=en|date=2003|publisher=[[Saint John's Abbey|Liturgical Press]]|location=[[Collegeville Township, Stearns County, Minnesota]]|id=ISBN 0-8146-2790-0; ISBN 978-0-814-62790-7}} [http://books.google.it/books?id=OxV87Fup-SUC&hl=en&pg=PR4&dq=%22First+published+in+2003+by+the+Canterbury+Press+Norwich%22 First published in 2003 by the Canterbury Press Norwich].</ref> with the Latin terms ''lectio'', ''meditatio'', ''oratio'', and ''contemplatio''. In Guigo's four stages one first reads, which leads to think about (i.e. [[Christian meditation|meditate]] on) the significance of the text; that process in turn leads the person to respond in prayer as the third stage. The fourth stage is when the prayer, in turn, points to the gift of quiet stillness in the presence of God, called [[contemplation]].<ref>''Christian spirituality: themes from the tradition'' by Lawrence S. Cunningham, Keith J. Egan 1996 ISBN 0-8091-3660-0 page 38</ref><ref>''The Oblate Life'' by Gervase Holdaway, 2008 ISBN 0-8146-3176-2 page 109</ref>
-==See also==
+==References==
+{{Reflist}}
-* [[Christian meditation]]
-* [[Guigo I]]
-* [[Lectio Divina]]
 ==Bibliography==
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 A Letter on the Contemplative Life and Twelve Meditations|url=http://books.google.it/books?id=t4IlAQAAIAAJ&hl=en|date=1978|publisher=Image Books|location=|id=ISBN 0-385-13596-3; ISBN 978-0-385-13596-2}}
-==References==
+==See also==
+* [[Christian meditation]]
-{{Reflist}}
+* [[Guigo I]]
+* [[Guigo de Ponte]]
+* [[Lectio Divina]]
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