Catholics: When did you last read the Bible?

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I’m over 50 and have read the bible in bits for a long time.

I’ve waited over seven years for a parish bible study to come along around here, and it hasn’t happened. So, I waited much too long to just read the Bible, as Fr. Corapi says (“I don’t care how you do it, just do it.”)

In my RSV 2nd Catholic edition, the OT is 845 pages, and I just finished reading it (took about three months of casual but persistent reading). It was just that, a reading. I need to do so much more, and re-reading too.

I am just overwhelmed about how God comes across as the loving father. The merciful father. The patient father. His mercy is just dripping all over the place. It doesn’t take St. Faustina to teach me that!

At the same time, I just can’t imagine the apostacy of the Jews as depicted there in the OT. I can’t imagine what the attraction was. I can’t imagine how even the Temple was overrun with idol worship. That’s one of the big questions. Maybe it’s not important.

In Scott Hahn’s bible study course book (which I have only been browsing so far) he makes a point: You have to understand the Old Testament to understand the New Testament. Well, I’m glad to have read the OT and am plunging into the NT. I hope the understanding comes along someplace.
 
Crumpy said:
I’m over 50 and have read the bible in bits for a long time.

I’ve waited over seven years for a parish bible study to come along around here, and it hasn’t happened. So, I waited much too long to just read the Bible, as Fr. Corapi says (“I don’t care how you do it, just do it.”)

In my RSV 2nd Catholic edition, the OT is 845 pages, and I just finished reading it (took about three months of casual but persistent reading). It was just that, a reading. I need to do so much more, and re-reading too.

I am just overwhelmed about how God comes across as the loving father. The merciful father. The patient father. His mercy is just dripping all over the place. It doesn’t take St. Faustina to teach me that!

At the same time, I just can’t imagine the apostasy of the Jews as depicted there in the OT. I can’t imagine what the attraction was. I can’t imagine how even the Temple was overrun with idol worship. That’s one of the big questions. Maybe it’s not important.

In Scott Hahn’s bible study course book (which I have only been browsing so far) he makes a point: You have to understand the Old Testament to understand the New Testament. Well, I’m glad to have read the OT and am plunging into the NT. I hope the understanding comes along someplace.
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I know precisely how you feel. I don’t think there’s a good substitute for reading the Bible, and I believe that God gives us very special graces as we do so that helps us live more like He wants us to.

What a blessed treasure we have in the Word of God! Alleluia!

Anyone else?
 
Church_Militant said:
I know precisely how you feel. I don’t think there’s a good substitute for reading the Bible, and I believe that God gives us very special graces as we do so that helps us live more like He wants us to. What a blessed treasure we have in the Word of God! Alleluia! Anyone else?
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What better place to start than at the beginning? Genesis it is tonight. Amen!
 
In the process of converting. 🙂 I do my best to read a chapter a day out of the Bible, though usually I manage more than that. I own 8 or 9 bibles, including one Hebrew-English version of the OT. The NRSV is currently my favourite.

The one I usually read goes with me everywhere in my messenger bag, held shut with a rubber band to keep pages from getting crumpled. This gives me the chance to squeeze a bit of reading into the dull spots in my day.
 
I try to attend daily Mass every day of the year… So i hear the Word… in the Presence of Christ (and the angels & saints, since i heard they attend all Masses as well)…

Can’t beat that… :o
 
for anyone who is on this discussion you all may be interested in the discussion going about a free Catholic Bible Study software program using e-sword base program, discussion is going on here: discussion of :
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forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=215917&page=6

Or you might want to pop on to the site for the free downloads at :
a great Catholic software Bible Study Program and best of all its free for download and nothing out there compares to this, its also going to get better.

From: http://www.esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics
What we have here at this web site a synopsis:

These are all eSword modules-Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, and Topical all for the eSword base Bible software program… All to help Catholics and those interested in knowing more or understanding what the Catholic Church truly teaches and why. All modules are free as well as the Base esword program for download. The Base progam is a free download at:
http://www.e-sword.net/downloads.html .

e-Sword is a fast and effective way to study the Bible.
e-Sword is feature rich and user friendly with more capabilities than you would expect in a free software package. The fact that e-Sword is free is just one of the blessings and does not speak of the quality of the software. I make my living writing software and I believe I have put forth my best effort in this endeavor. The real work, however, was put in by the godly men and women who devoted countless years creating the texts that have been made available for our benefit. (From the e-sword Web site Rick Myers)

The Program has the ability to accept user created modules hence a substantial number of user Catholic modules including the Early Teachings of the Church in the first few centuries (a must read),** Haydock Commentary, St Thomas works** in the Catena commentary on Gospels by early church fathers, and his Summa Theologica, a number of Catholic Bibles, Catechism 1909 Catholic encyclopedia another must, a Catholic Doctrinal Concordance, and a number of special tools for studying the Bible With Greek and Latin tools for studying the basic Greek Grammer to enhance one’s understanding of definitions etc. This has become a consolidation of free modules for e-Sword base progam, modules scattered across ensips web, and a few other websites on the internet all to make for easier download and finding of Catholic modules and good study tools. Michael Jacques
A Free Greek English-Hebrew English interlinear Bible which is better than the interlinear for e-Sword is available at http://www.scripture4all.org/

PS Be sure to share this ino with other Catholic friends and any and all who may be interested in learning more about what the church truly teaches and why
 
costruire said:
In the process of converting. 🙂 I do my best to read a chapter a day out of the Bible, though usually I manage more than that. I own 8 or 9 bibles, including one Hebrew-English version of the OT. The NRSV is currently my favourite.

The one I usually read goes with me everywhere in my messenger bag, held shut with a rubber band to keep pages from getting crumpled. This gives me the chance to squeeze a bit of reading into the dull spots in my day.
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Welcome! And, praise the Holy Name of God!

Christ’s peace always be with you.
 
I love the Bible.
I’ve always loved spiritual reading, so I used to read a lot of spiritual books (Secrets of the Interior Life, Rome Sweet Home, a ton of books by saints, etc. Plus C.S. Lewis is amazing!) but then I realized that even though it was really great to read those also, it was kinda ridiculous that I was reading only those without first reading God’s direct words to me! I thought reading the Bible was going to be kinda boring, but it’s amazing! It’s so surprisingly personal.
Because I carry it everywhere, I got a little RSV Ignatius leather zip-up Bible. I love it, because it’s portable and the zipper helps to not mess it up. I used to feel a little embarrassed that I was all into the Bible, because it seemed so… stereotypical Christian? But now I sit down in the mall food court and take out my Bible and I love it!
I’ve found when I go out on missions and stuff, the fact that I’m a Catholic 18-year-old that reads the Bible daily has dismissed a lot of misconceptions about the faith, and brings me closer to my Protestant brothers and sisters.
I also bought a book called “The Better Part” by Fr. John Bartunek, LC. It’s a book of meditations on every passage in the Gospels. Amazing!!! I recommend it to everybody.
 
What will happen first–Our Lord’s return or the translation of the Nova Vulgata into the English language?
 
My Answers:

Daily:
I read the text for the upcoming mass every day of the week leading up to it. When I have time, I try to read the texts for the Daily masses as well. I should really devote more time to that.
😊

I have my own personal Bible
&
I own several Bibles:
The Bible I primarily use is The New American Bible-St. Joseph edition. I do not carry it to church with me because I have my own missal and I take that with me.
We have several different types of NIV bibles and I think we have a New American Standard Version…never really used it. And since becoming Catholic, I never really use my NIV either

I am a convert to the Catholic Church:
Was just confirmed this Easter Vigil. Before, I was Southern Baptist or evangelical non-demoninational (we move around alot, so we don’t always belong to the same type of church)
 
kmarie08 said:
I I used to feel a little embarrassed that I was all into the Bible, because it seemed so… stereotypical Christian?
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😃 I can SO relate to that. The thing is, it is interesting that we should feel so embarrassed… I guess Christians have been given a bad reputation… by fanatics… but also by those who persecute all Christians, even the ones who are not fanatics… Jesus promised that the world would hate us… and we find out how true that is when we begin doing what Jesus told us to do: preach to all…

God bless you. You are SO fortunate to be so young and to know the Catholic faith (I assume you know it fairly well?)…
When i was your age, i was lost… and i almost didn’t make it to Jesus… or back to Jesus, i should say… If i had been catechized (knew then what i know now), my life would have been totally different and my faith in God right now would be much stronger… (very long story…).
I wish you knew… and could speak to some young people i know… who don’t have what you have…

God bless…
 
Does any one (here) have a Youth Bible Study in their parish? I realize that the young need to have the Word ‘opened up’ for them, but I haven’t heard too much about a Youth Bible Study any where.

I believe that the questions of our young members, and the answers that they could understand, would not be the same as those of adults. Not to mention, it may be more ‘fun’ for them.

What would be in a YBS that’s not in an adult BS? I would start with: the names of the books in the Bible; maybe popular Bible Stories (that we don’t get on Sundays in mass - like Bathsheba and David and Goliath, Balaam and the ***, etc)

There is an interest in my parish, but the ones of us that want to do it, admittedly, are apprehensive. We have the YOUTH in our hands, and want to do a good job. We want them to want to read the Bible, and we also want to teach them well (there is so much I haven’t read myself, and so much that I know I don’t know, even if I have read it)😊

Where to start? or is this something that most avoid because we already have Catechism, training for Holy Communion and Confirmation, and the Religious Ed in the schools?
 
Apryl said:
Does any one (here) have a Youth Bible Study in their parish? I realize that the young need to have the Word ‘opened up’ for them, but I haven’t heard too much about a Youth Bible Study any where.
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There is a certain amount of this in Youth Group, but it’s not the main focus. My experience is that young people in school don’t want an extra class where they have to study - they’d much rather socialize, sing songs, and run around the room. 🙂

The first hint of any kind of actual sit-down study work causes them to suddenly be “too busy for Youth Group.” 🤷
 
jmcrae said:
The first hint of any kind of actual sit-down study work causes them to suddenly be “too busy for Youth Group.” 🤷
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Which is probably why we haven’t had a YBS in our parish. This year, though, we have a group of kids (young men, actually) that come every week with very good, intense, serious questions about the Bible, and questions that they have on Bible, religion, Christianity, and the like. :cool: The DRE and I would like to NOT have these questions in with the rest of the children, as our Sunday Religious Ed group is typically all the kids together. We don’t have enough instructors to have the Sunday group broken up by age.

Also, what we do on Sunday is just do the Readings from a Children’s Bible (the CE translation) and discussion of the readins and the Gospel - on the level that children can relate to. We don’t want to not give them the Liturgy of the Day for the sake of Bible instruction.

We have a delima.
 
Apryl said:
Which is probably why we haven’t had a YBS in our parish. This year, though, we have a group of kids (young men, actually) that come every week with very good, intense, serious questions about the Bible, and questions that they have on Bible, religion, Christianity, and the like. :cool:
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That’s great! 🙂

Maybe you can set a time either later on Sunday or during the week for them to come together and have a deeper discussion? You could call it an “extra enrichment” session, or something like that.
 
Crumpy said:
I’m over 50 and have read the bible in bits for a long time.

I’ve waited over seven years for a parish bible study to come along around here, and it hasn’t happened. So, I waited much too long to just read the Bible, as Fr. Corapi says (“I don’t care how you do it, just do it.”)

In my RSV 2nd Catholic edition, the OT is 845 pages, and I just finished reading it (took about three months of casual but persistent reading). It was just that, a reading. I need to do so much more, and re-reading too.

I am just overwhelmed about how God comes across as the loving father. The merciful father. The patient father. His mercy is just dripping all over the place. It doesn’t take St. Faustina to teach me that!

At the same time, I just can’t imagine the apostacy of the Jews as depicted there in the OT. I can’t imagine what the attraction was. I can’t imagine how even the Temple was overrun with idol worship. That’s one of the big questions. Maybe it’s not important.

In Scott Hahn’s bible study course book (which I have only been browsing so far) he makes a point: You have to understand the Old Testament to understand the New Testament. Well, I’m glad to have read the OT and am plunging into the NT. I hope the understanding comes along someplace.
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Hi Crumpy -

I read the bible every day. Bible studies are two a week.

I found that just reading the bible is somehow fruitless. It is very difficult to understand when just plowing through it. Bible studies are the way to go.

I have a suggestion - why not start a parish bible study yourself? Take the lead! 👍 Scott Hahn’s study is good. Also Little Rock Scripture Study has been around for a while and is very thorough. We use it at our parish and I find it very useful and revealing. It is a good Catholic bible study.

We also use the Collegeville Scripture Commentaries to help with the study. Both are published by the same publishing company.

Notice on the website that they have leadership training. A good place to start! You are likely to find Catholics who have the same mindset and are waiting for it to just happen.

Make it happen!

Subrosa
 
jmcrae said:
That’s great! 🙂

Maybe you can set a time either later on Sunday or during the week for them to come together and have a deeper discussion? You could call it an “extra enrichment” session, or something like that.
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LOL… we were going to call it “Youth Bible Study”😉 … just curious how others are doing the same thing, and what things prevent it from being more prevalent.
 
As i have mentioned before that i am drawn to the catholic church i searched for catholic bible notes. I came across bible alive, i sent off for it you get three free and then if you decide to carry on with them you can take out a subscription. Also i went to light a candle in our town centre catholic church and found some catholic daily notes called living faith so i bought a copy its very good. I read both set of notes each day both have the mass readings . I have also bought the new catholic answer bible its really helpfull and it explains things very well. Does anyone know of any other bible notes?
 
i read the daily readings during breakfast …i own several Bibles,
a DR circa 1950, two NAB, and several KJV…i was a back-slidden cradle catholic who married a Pentecostal and was a member of that church, (UPC), for several years, then reverted to the Catholic church.👍
 
nerddad said:
i read the daily readings during breakfast …i own several Bibles,
a DR circa 1950, two NAB, and several KJV…i was a back-slidden cradle catholic who married a Pentecostal and was a member of that church, (UPC), for several years, then reverted to the Catholic church.👍
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I’m a very devout Catholic that wishes more Catholics had CATHOLIC Bibles… but I still find that I prefer the KJV, and the Modern KJV translations. I like the language and the way the words flow.

What I don’t like is when books, chapters, verses, and words are missing!

When is the one responsible for those missing books going to be brought forward so we can tar and feather him???:mad:
 
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