Catechism and Bible study

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What is the best way to study the Catechism and Bible together? I have read the Catechism twice but looking for a more in-depth type of study. Buying study books is not an option.
 
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What is the best way to study the Catechism and Bible together? I have read the Catechism twice but looking for a more in-depth type of study. Buying study books is not an option.
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A good approach that I sometimes use is to look up the Scripture references from the Catechism, read the relevant passages, and reflect on them. (For example, if the Catechism references John ch. 6 on the Eucharist, I could read and reflect on John 6.)

Another approach is to use a Bible which has theological footnotes, which often mirror or complement the contents of the Catechism. (The full version of the New Jerusalem Bible has a particularly useful index of this sort.)
 
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What is the best way to study the Catechism and Bible together? I have read the Catechism twice but looking for a more in-depth type of study. Buying study books is not an option.
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Hiya

If buying books is not an option right now, check out this site - its a Catholic e-book project.

saintsbooks.net/BooksList.html

It has many useful books and documents, including various types of Catechism for various ages , to use for free.

I think the “references” section would be your best bet, but others may help too.

Hope this helps!
 
The Coming Home Network has a pamphlet with Scripture and Catechism readings side by side to make it easy to read through both books in one year. It’s not really a “study”, though. You more or less put one book mark at the beginning of the Old Testament, one bookmark at the start of the Old Testament wisdom books, one bookmark at the start of the New Testament, and one bookmark at the start of the Catechism. Then you just go forward reading a little each day from those four starting points. So what you read in one place would probably only once-in-a-while accidentally line up with what you read in another place.

If you wanted to do some type of create-your-own-free-study, then I think RPRPsych gives good advice. The Catechism is full of Scripture citations on every page. So you could just read a bit in the Catechism, look at the footnotes, and then read those Scripture passages.

Or – to do it the other way around – read a passage in Scripture, and then check out the Catechism’s Index of Scripture citations to find the paragraphs that reference that portion of Scripture.
 
RPRPsych said:
A good approach that I sometimes use is to look up the Scripture references from the Catechism, read the relevant passages, and reflect on them. (For example, if the Catechism references John ch. 6 on the Eucharist, I could read and reflect on John 6.)

Another approach is to use a Bible which has theological footnotes, which often mirror or complement the contents of the Catechism. (The full version of the New Jerusalem Bible has a particularly useful index of this sort.)
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I agree with this. There are literally hundreds of Scriptural footnotes across every page of the Catechism.
 
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I agree with this. There are literally hundreds of Scriptural footnotes across every page of the Catechism.
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True. 🙂 It’s also worth noting that most of the quotations (at least in the English translation) are from the Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version, so keeping an RSV handy helps avoid doubts about alternate translations. 😉
 
Thank you all for the great ideas. Not sure why it didn’t cross my mind to cross reference each them. LOL My brain is way overworked LOL
 
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