Mother Angelica and the Bible

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EWTN re-ran a great installment of the Mother Angelica Live program which was originally broadcast on 1/2/96 (in case you want to order an audio or video tape of the program).

She ran over these points somewhat quickly but she stated them with some emphasis. I think they’re so important that I’d like to share them.
  1. Read the Bible daily, she said. There are a lot of ways to do this, people offer lots of advice. In my case, I have decided to read one chapter of scripture a day, as a rule. I’m hung up on Genesis Chap 4. I have to dig a little into those ending verses. What do the names Seth and Enos mean? Why is it that *that * was the time that men started to call on the name of the Lord?
  2. Read the Bible slowly and carefully. The Little Rock Scripture Study program is very popular, but it goes, in my view, way too fast – sometimes covering a number of chapters of scripture on a weekly basis. I’ve also discovered the online Bible study program of Jeff Cavins and Scott Hahn at www.catholicexchange.com. I’ve just glanced at it, but I already see that the Genesis and Romans studies are broken up into many weekly increments. For me, that’s the general way to go.
I used to listen to an evangelical Bible study radio program that originates in Oakland CA (Family Radio). Mr. Harold Camping produced, as I recall, over 200 half-hour programs discussing the Book of Ruth, which has only 78 verses. Camping is anti-Catholic, so beware. But, this was a wonderful series of programs that drew out a tremendous amount of information from even such a deceptively short book of scripture.
  1. I forget which way it goes – did she recommend an inclusive-language or a non-inclusive language Bible? I think it was the latter – the Navarre/Revised Standard Version from Ignatius Press by name.
That was a great program, $8 for the audio tape from EWTN, if you’re interested.
 
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  1. Read the Bible daily, she said. There are a lot of ways to do this, people offer lots of advice. In my case, I have decided to read one chapter of scripture a day, as a rule. I’m hung up on Genesis Chap 4. I have to dig a little into those ending verses. What do the names Seth and Enos mean? Why is it that *that * was the time that men started to call on the name of the Lord?
  2. Read the Bible slowly and carefully. The Little Rock Scripture Study program is very popular, but it goes, in my view, way too fast – sometimes covering a number of chapters of scripture on a weekly basis. I’ve also discovered the online Bible study program of Jeff Cavins and Scott Hahn at www.catholicexchange.com. I’ve just glanced at it, but I already see that the Genesis and Romans studies are broken up into many weekly increments. For me, that’s the general way to go.
Here are some other resources you may find helpful:

Emmaus Road books features Bible studies for women’s groups:
emmausroad.org/shopnew/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=7&subcat=43&cat=Bible+Studies

The Ignatius Study Bibles, with questions for study at the back of each book (currently the four Gospels, Acts, Romans and I/II Corinthians:
ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=824&Category_ID=6&TabID=1

Catholic Exchange has very in depth studies, currently Romans and Genesis, with Exodus coming this fall. Others available:
catholicexchange.com/css/biblestudy.asp?study=BS13

Scott Hahn also features Bible studies at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels on his web page:
salvationhistory.com/

Catholic Serendipity Bible: A NAB without the footnotes but with lots and lots of practical Bible studies and study helps:
zondervanbibles.com/031093737X.htm

Steve Ray’s monumental but user-friendly Catholic Bible study of John’s Gospel:
ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=418&SKU=BSGC:JN-P&ReturnURL=search.aspx%3f%3fSID%3d1%26Keywords%3djohn

Consider watching as a group one of Steve Ray’s Footprints of God videos, currently Jesus, Mary, Peter, Moses and Paul. They are extremely well done and come with great study notes:
catholic-convert.com/DesktopDefault.aspx

Beginning Apologetics with Study Guide/questions available:
catholicapologetics.com/ba1.htm

Sheet from Coming Home Network that leads you through the Bible AND Catechism in a year:
chnetwork.org/readguide04.pdf

That should get you started! 🙂
 
BayCityRickL said:
3. I forget which way it goes – did she recommend an inclusive-language or a non-inclusive language Bible? I think it was the latter – the Navarre/Revised Standard Version from Ignatius Press by name.

That was a great program, $8 for the audio tape from EWTN, if you’re interested.

She is great isn’t she? My son & I always crack up at her funny jokes when we listen to her in the car, she always tells it like it is.

She recommended a NON-inclusive version…

God Bless,
M:)
 
Another good study resource is Jeff Cavins “The Great Adventure”
thebibletimeline.com/

As far as a Bible goes… Mother Angelica uses the Jerusalem Bible (1966, 1967, or 1968 revision I believe). A better option is the Ignatius Bible RSV-CE available at ignatius.com/

Michael
 
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