How often does CAF read/study the Bible (besides at Mass)?

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The daily readings for me and then longer reading sessions 1-2 times per week.
 
Not as often as I used to. Now it really only happens when I’m praying the LOTH.
 
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You know you can get a plenary indulgence for reading Holy Scripture for half an hour in a day?
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Yes, that’s why I do it and alternate it with other things one gets a plenary indulgence for.
I try to get one every day if I can, so I can give them to a soul in purgatory.
 
CAF is the abbreviation for the forum you are posting on.

Edited to add, by the way, are you related to the other two posters that joined within the last day and are all basically posting the same stuff about “love” over and over?
 
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I recently found that out. Bible study is one of my favorite things to do, so when I found that out I was like, ‘Woah! I can start getting a lot more plenary indulgences!’ So I’ve been meaning to do that more and make more of a point to receive indulgences.
But I’m a little unsure of how it works: so in addition to the prayers and receiving Holy Communion, you have to go to Confession within 20 days of the indulgenced work–Is that one Confession per indulgence? Or is it that you can receive one indulgence every day, if you do the work, receive Communion, pray for the intentions of our Holy Father, so long as you have been to Confession within 20 days?
 
One Confession is good for 20 days. So you can get up to 20 Plenary indulgences with one confession, as long as you don’t fall out of the state of grace. You can confess within 20 days before or after, but it’s usually easier to do it before because you have to be in a state of grace when you do the work for the indulgence.

I’m just going to cut and paste Fr. Richard Heilman’s instructions from RomanCatholicMan website.
Here’s a scenario for gaining a plenary indulgence today …
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CONDITIONS
First, I have the conditions in place:
  1. I’m in a state of grace.
  2. I’ve gone to Confession within 20 days (before or after today).
  3. Going to Mass and receiving Communion today.
  4. I prayed an Our Father and a Hail Mary for the pope’s intentions.
  5. I have not let any sin(s) defeat me, by hanging on to it. In other words, at my last confession, I made my confession with a truly “contrite” spirit … meaning, I did NOT confess my sins, while saying to myself something like, “… even though I know I will do this again” or, “… even though I am confessing that I am angry with this person, I am not letting go of that anger.”
DOING THE WORK
Okay, now that the conditions (above) are in place … now I simply need to choose which of the four activities the Church allows on any given day for gaining a plenary indulgence. I call these the “Big Four:”
*Adoring the Blessed Sacrament for at least one half hour
*Devoutly reading Sacred Scripture for at least one half hour
*Devoutly performing the Stations of the Cross (only at approved Stations)
*Reciting the Rosary with members of the family, or in a church, oratory, religious community, or pious association
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The “stations” one is the hardest because many churches put up stations that don’t conform to the requirement of there being 14 crosses, one for each station. A lot of them just have a picture of the image for each station. The stations that involve the Cross could be said to have a cross contained in the image (such as Jesus taking up his cross, Jesus falling under the cross, etc.) but there are several stations like Jesus is Condemned to Death and Jesus is Laid in the Tomb that usually don’t have a cross contained in the image, so if the church didn’t see fit to include a cross under the station or as part of its frame or something, the stations don’t meet the requirement for the indulgence.
 
Huh, interesting, I was wondering what it meant by that. Now I know to make sure to check for that. Thanks!
 
Reading the Sacred Scriptures and related texts has been my favorite activity.

I wish I could produce a movie about it. Specially to fix all the mess Hollywood did with some biblical stories
 
Surely you’re not objecting to the greatest Biblical story film of all time, The Ten Commandments? I think that movie did more to make the Bible cool to kids than an entire three hours of Fr. Mike videos. I know when it played on TV in the 70s, my entire school class was glued to their TVs at home for 2 nights.

The Jesus movies like Greatest Story Ever Told and Jesus of Nazareth weren’t too bad either.
 
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The only movie I don’t repudiate is Passion of Christ because I only watched it once and spent most of the time crying like a baby while vewing all the suffering. So I didn’t exactly examine it…

The 10 Commandments from the 1956 is fun but the story told there and even the teachings in it are very different from what is in Scriptures (I expected this discussion to happen in a topic I created but people didn’t feel like it)
 
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