“Statio is being where you are supposed to be before you need to go there. In monastic parlance it is about being consciously committed to what you are there to do, so that your mind isn’t partially distracted by the thing you just left behind. It requires you to get ready for one of these central moments of your spiritual life, to concentrate on the things of God, to leave behind for a while the distractions of the day. It enables us to separate ourselves from one thing entirely before we start another one with half ourselves still concentrated on the thing we just left behind.”
–Joan Chittister, The Monastic Heart (Convergent, 2021), p. 8
