FREE Catholic Bible Study for Lent Now Available!

[Fidelis]

Believe it or not, the beginning of Lent (Ash Wednesday, February 22) is not all that far away. NOW is the time to start planning a Lenten Scripture study for your small faith group, your family or for yourself.

On my website (linked below) you will find everything you need to plan for and begin a simple Lenten Scripture Study based on the Sunday readings. Many people who used the studies for last Lent and Advent have told me how helpful they found them, especially in small faith sharing groups.

You can go directly to the Advent/Lent studies page by clicking here. More info to follow.

Join the Lenten journey toward Easter by opening up God’s Word with the Church!

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[TGarner]

Awesome thank you!

Being a totally new soon to be Catholic going through RCIA right now this is just what I needed to learn more about Lent before it starts.

THANK YOU!

God Bless

 

[Fidelis]

You are welcome, TGarner. Watch this spot for updates and resources.

 

[TGarner]

Thank you I will.

God bless

 

[Fidelis]

If anyone is interested in starting a Lenten Scripture study group at their parish, but has never done so before, I have an article on my website that gives some tips on how to get started:

How to Use This Study With Small Groups

 

[AuroraB]

Haven’t looked at the Bible Study yet, I plan to. It’s a very good idea. I did look at the previous link for preparing for a Bible Study and that is excellent, just one thing though: the Scripture quotation is Ephesians 2:19, no 3:19

 

[srchrissan]

B]Hi! Thank you for the free Lenten Bible Study. I was looking for one for my group who are relatively new Catholics. God bless you! Pax! Sr Chris S.

 

[Beati_Pacifici]

Thanks most graciously. I will bookmark this!

 

[Snugglebugmom]

Thank you very much, I have bookmarked it and can’t wait to get started on it come Lent!

 

[annabelle125]

Thank you very much! I bookmarked your site and will share it with friends!

Blessings,

Anne

 

[Fidelis]

Haven’t looked at the Bible Study yet, I plan to. It’s a very good idea. I did look at the previous link for preparing for a Bible Study and that is excellent, just one thing though: the Scripture quotation is Ephesians 2:19, no 3:19

Thanks for letting me know. It’s been corrected.

 

[Fidelis]

Hi! Thank you for the free Lenten Bible Study. I was looking for one for my group who are relatively new Catholics. God bless you! Pax! Sr Chris S

Thanks most graciously. I will bookmark this!

Thank you very much, I have bookmarked it and can’t wait to get started on it come Lent!

Thank you very much! I bookmarked your site and will share it with friends!
Blessings,
Anne

You are all most welcome! :tiphat:

 

[AuroraB]

Thanks for letting me know. It’s been corrected.

You are welcome. I’ve become quite protestant about chapter and verse
I also found the link on your blog to Fr. Paul Scalia’s talks on the Seven Deadly Sins, they are excellent. I’ve bookmarked the page and am looking forward to some of the other talks, there are some very promising topics. Thank You

 

[Fidelis]

You are welcome. I’ve become quite protestant about chapter and verse
I also found the link on your blog to Fr. Paul Scalia’s talks on the Seven Deadly Sins, they are excellent. I’ve bookmarked the page and am looking forward to some of the other talks, there are some very promising topics. Thank You

You are very welcome. I myself have benefited immensely from these talks.

If anyone else would like to check them out, here is the link:

The Institute for Catholic Culture

The Institute features high quality by top-notch orthodox Catholic speakers, which cover a wide range of topics interesting and informative to Catholics and other Christians. The topics include Church history, theology, philosophy and Sacred Scripture.

My blog post on Fr. Scalia’s talks on the Natural Law/the Seven Deadly Sins that AuroraB referred to can be found here:

Fr. Paul Scalia On “The Seven Deadly Sins”

 

[Tiller]

Does anyone know of a good daily devotional for Lent?

 

[Fidelis]

Does anyone know of a good daily devotional for Lent?

There are a couple that I can recommend. The first is from Magnificat magazine which is a daily missal/daily prayer/devotional, but they offer special Lenten and Advent devotionals as well.

The second is “The Word Among Us” magazine. They are also a daily devotional based on the daily Scripture readings, and they also have special editions for Lent and Advent. If you are on Facebook, you can “Like” my Sunday Scripture Study for Catholics Facebook page (linked below) and get the daily meditations every day.

I suggest you start a new thread on this if you haven’t already done so; that way you will get more replies.

 

[Fidelis]

And don’t forget: Weekly studies for the Sunday Scripture readings can be found on my website at the link below under “Current Study”.

 

[Fidelis]

Believe it or not, it’s now less than a week until Ash Wednesday. Have you put plans in place to start your Lenten Bible study?

 

[Fidelis]

The 1st Sunday of Lent is only a week away! If you are planning on leading (or even following) the Lenten Scripture study found on my website, here are some resources on the readings that will give you some helpful background:

St. Charles Borromeo Bible Study

Catholic Matters

Sunday Preachers Resource

Haydock Commentary

Catena Aurea

More to come!

 

[Fidelis]

Navarre Bible Commentary—1st Sunday of Lent, Cycle B

First Reading
**From: Genesis 9:8-15

God’s Covenant with Noah (Continuation)
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[8] Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, [9] “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and. your descendants after you, [10] and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. [11] I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” [12] And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. [14] When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, [15] I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.”

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Commentary:*

9:8-17. To show that he was pleased by Noah’s sacrifice, God promised that he would never again flood the earth (cf. 8:20-22); now he renews that promise in the context of a covenant that covers all creation and which is ratified by a sign–the rainbow.

This marks the start of a series of covenants which God will freely establish with men. The first covenant (with Noah) takes in all creation, now purified and renewed by the flood. Later there will be the covenant with Abraham, which will affect only himself and his descendants (cf. chap. 17). Finally, under Moses, he will establish the covenant of Sinai (cf. Ex 19), also confined to the people of Israel. But because man proved unable to keep these successive covenants, God promised, through the prophets, to establish a new covenant in the messianic age: “I will put my law within them and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people” (Jer 31:33). This promise found its fulfillment in Christ, as he himself said when he instituted the eucharistic sacrifice of his body. and blood: “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood” (Lk 22:20).

The Fathers and ecclesiastical writers saw this rainbow as the first proclamation of this new covenant. Rupert of Deutz, for example, writes: “In it God established a covenant with men through his son Jesus Christ; by the death (of Christ) on the cross God reconciled us to himself, cleansing us of our sins in his blood, and he gave us through (Christ) the Holy Spirit of his love, instituting the baptism of water and the Holy Spirit by which we are reborn. Therefore, that rainbow which appears in the clouds is a sign of the Son of God. …] It is the sign that God will never again destroy all flesh by the waters of the flood; the Son of God himself, who was taken out of sight by a cloud, and who is lifted up beyond the clouds, above all the heavens, is forever a sign which reminds God the Father; he is an eternal memorial of our peace: now that he in his flesh has destroyed the old enmity, friendship between God and men is secure: men are no longer servants but friends and children of God” (“Commentarium in Genesim”, 4,36).