Bible study

[Roger12345]

You can find many good bible studies online for reading through the bible in 90 days or 52 weeks, but none of these schedules I’ve come accross include the apocryphal books. Does anyone have a reading schedule for the bible with the apocrypha?

Also was there ever a time when Catholics were restricted from reading the Bible?

 

[bmullins]

I don’t know about a particular time frame but the Agape Bible study is decent. We are beginning a study on the Prophets in our local Parish called “Come and See” that gets a lot of good reviews. As far as if there have ever been any restrictions from reading the bible, no. There may have been some at local levels from uneducated catechists, but the church as a whole has never taught that one shouldn’t read the bible. (Now having bible’s available is a different story, for many years they simply weren’t available to people.)

 

[svid2]

Throughout history, illitteracy has always been the biggest problem. Even today, a majority of the world’s population is illitterate.

We are told to preach the Gospel to all nations, not just send them copies.

 

[couponfit]

You can find many good bible studies online for reading through the bible in 90 days or 52 weeks, but none of these schedules I’ve come accross include the apocryphal books. Does anyone have a reading schedule for the bible with the apocrypha?

Also was there ever a time when Catholics were restricted from reading the Bible?

Hard to study that which the church denies. For the most part there are two kinds of Apocryphal books. Those that were in the actual church canon between the old and new testament, which were really old testament writings in Greek (not hebrew). And the other kind are those resurrected over the years, especially those found in Alexandria, that show gnostic gospels found to be written not by those they were attributed to.

Either way none are considered part of our faith. They are studied to understand elements of faith and debate in the early christian church.

 

[CB_Catholic]

Hard to study that which the church denies. For the most part there are two kinds of Apocryphal books. Those that were in the actual church canon between the old and new testament, which were really old testament writings in Greek (not hebrew). And the other kind are those resurrected over the years, especially those found in Alexandria, that show gnostic gospels found to be written not by those they were attributed to.

Either way none are considered part of our faith. They are studied to understand elements of faith and debate in the early christian church.

All of the 7 Deuterocanonical books, commonly referred to as the Apocrypha are considered Sacred Scripture, just like the rest of the Bible, and most certainly are part of our faith. The other books you referred to are not. Are you referring to something else? There are some books that the Orthodox include in their Canon which the Catholic church does not consider inspired Scripture.

 

[1ke]

You can find many good bible studies online for reading through the bible in 90 days or 52 weeks, but none of these schedules I’ve come accross include the apocryphal books. Does anyone have a reading schedule for the bible with the apocrypha?

Also was there ever a time when Catholics were restricted from reading the Bible?

Apocrypha is a pejorative term that should not be used to describe the 7 books found in the Catholic bible but not the Protestant bible. The proper term is Deuterocanon.

Apocrypha properly refers to those books not accepted as canonical, spurious works such as Gnostic writings. Patristics refers to the legitimate writings of the early church Fathers not included in the canon.

Googling “catholic bible in a year” returned many results including a lectionaries asked study from St Charles Borromeo parish in MS.

 

[thistle]

You can find many good bible studies online for reading through the bible in 90 days or 52 weeks, but none of these schedules I’ve come accross include the apocryphal books. Does anyone have a reading schedule for the bible with the apocrypha?

Also was there ever a time when Catholics were restricted from reading the Bible?

Only bad translations.

“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ” - St Jerome.