Anime Lectio: T - P Bon Seasons 1 and 2

                                                            1. Why do Anime Lectio? 

Anime Lectio is a time for us to stop and take a breath. Between work, activities, family life, and social media, our minds are always moving. We rarely take time to contemplate and ask, why am I watching this anime? What’s the point of all this? And, how is this making me feel? 

2. Put away all distractions 

(phones, work, etc.)

We are so enslaved to things that stimulate our minds. Let this be a moment for us to free our minds, look inside of ourselves, and be at peace.

3. Deep Breathing

Take several deep breaths. Let your mind relax. If you’ve had any questions, desires, or struggles that you’ve been hiding or stuffing away, let them rise up to the surface. 

4. Open yourself to God’s Presence

Remember God places all our thoughts and desires inside of us, and He uses them to draw us closer to Himself. God gives us a community to help us understand who we are and what He is calling us to do. The faces of other people you know and don't know are like signs of God’s presence.  

5. Think About What’s on Your Mind in Relation to the Anime

Think about what’s been on your mind in relation to the anime.  The following is an example of such thoughts written by me. 

Have you ever thought about your influence on history, either on history in general or on the history of a particular place?  What you do at any given moment, even unknowingly and not intentionally, can influence what happens to, with, and/or for people around you, which can also help you too.  How it can help you may not be in the way you expect it to happen, but it can still help you if you allow that to happen and work with what happens instead of working against it.  An interesting example of this can be seen in the first and second seasons of the anime series T - P Bon.

6. Brief and written explanation of the anime

Pay attention to how the brief and written explanation of the anime seen on this blog, or seeing the anime for yourself since that's better than any explanation, might “speak” to you or shed light on the things that have been on your minds.

A boy known for being average and not interested in studying accidentally finds out about a group of people known as the Time Patrol.  Since the boy happens to have an influence on history, even though this influence starts with something that he didn't mean to do, he becomes a member of the Time Patrol. With the help of a more experienced Time Patrol agent, a human girl that is around the boy's age who lives in a different time period, as well as some random creature that looks like a jellyfish, they go on missions to help people throughout history.  They do this based on what they are told to do in order to make sure certain things happen so that history doesn't drastically change, what they can do for the sake of keeping history the way it is/supposed to be, and what they want to do if they can for their own sakes.  All of this happens until the girl is seemingly randomly assigned to a different role in the Time Patrol at the end of the last episode in the first season, which continues to be seen in the second season of this anime.

7.  Reflect on the anime

Has this brief and written explanation of the anime shed any light on what's been on your minds?  The following is an example of a reflection on the anime from me.

The series T - P Bon focuses on the influence that people can have on history in general, whether those people be the main characters, as well as others, that work for Time Patrol in order to protect history and make sure it happens the right way, the people involved in history directly that Time Patrol works to help, or the people that try to change history for themselves that Time Patrol tries to stop. Having an influence on the history of a particular place is also important since it can influence history in general, but what's more important here is working with the history of a particular place, especially if it's a place where you live and/or work with others and is something that you want to do. Even if it's something that you don't want to do anymore, or you feel like you have to do it, working with what happens instead of against it is better for not only your sake of figuring out what you want to do for not only yourself, but also for the sake of others.

8. Final Prayer

Please voice any prayer intentions for friends, family, or people around the world that relate to this anime.  The following is an example written by me.

Let us pray that we can work on our own histories, which involves the history of a particular place that we are part of and history in general, in order to work on ourselves and how that influences others.