Ephesians Commentary
At the moment in Bible Study we’re going through Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians. I’m therefore in the process of adding content to the Commentary section of this website:
Tag: Sacred Scripture
Epistle of Joy – Episode #1 (Audio)
So, in addition to having a YouTube video video series this February, the study will also be available in MP3 format. If you would like to subscribe in iTunes (“File” -> “Subscribe to Podcast…”), please use the following URL:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Epistle-Of-Joy
Below is the audio of the video I put a few days ago.
Epistle of Joy – Episode #1 (Download)
TOT: Crash Course In Sacred Scripture
Theology On Tap was running last month and one of the speakers in this series was Katie Patrizio giving her talk entitled“A Crash Course through Sacred Scripture”.
As well as giving a brief tour through the books of the Bible, in her talk Katie traces the biblical narrative through the six major covenants of Salvation History. As she moves through each of the covenants she explains how the covenants built upon one another and all recapitulated and ultimately fulfilled in the words and actions of Christ.
Main Talk (Download)
Unfortunately, I had to cut some of the audio during the discussion with the audience because the audio quality was too poor. However, enough context is given in each answer to work out the other side of the conversation…
Q&A (Download)
Group Discussions (Download)
Katie has several more talks on her website that you might like to check out if you’d like to learn more about studying the Bible. She will also be completing her MA in Theology this week and has asked for your prayers!
The canon and tradition
I wanted to share a recent post from Soul Device on the canon of the Bible and the subject of tradition:
Lectionary Statistics
When talking about the Bible, we Catholics inevitably end up talking about the Liturgy of the Word at Mass. I had always wondered how much of the Bible we hear proclaimed in the Liturgy. The other day I got a little curious and tracked done some statistics…
Colossians Bible Study
We will soon be starting a Bible study on St. Paul’s epistle to the Colossians so today I’ve been working on some preparatory notes. If you’re interested, the introduction and Chapter 1 are now complete:
Reading the Bible in a Year
After doing so badly on my New Year Resolutions this year, I’ve decided to keep it simple next year. That doesn’t mean that it’s going to be easy though! I’ve decided that in 2014 I am going to read the entirety of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments.
I’ve spent the last hour or so looking at different reading plans online. Many that I’ve found have been Protestant and have unfortunately therefore lacked the Deuterocanon. If I were to use any of those I would have to squeeze in the extra books (Tobit, Wisdom, Maccabees, etc.) at some point in the year. Moving on…
Some reading plans, such as YouVersion, don’t actually cover the entire Bible and instead just cover the majority of the text. While practical, that also seems a bit “meh”. Moving on…
I also found one plan which has quite a mix of daily readings. Each day there there are two Old Testament readings, a Psalm and a New Testament reading. That is contrasted with the plans from Presentation Ministry and Catholic Doors, both of which assign one book at a time.
As far as I can tell, the most popular plan is one which is put out by the Coming Home Network, which is available in PDF here and which some nice person converted into hypertext format here. It has an Old Testament reading, New Testament reading and then something from the Wisdom literature, such as Psalms or Proverbs. I think this is the plan for me. It even has the option of reading through the Catechism too…but maybe I’ll think about that for 2015!
If anyone else has the same goal for 2014, please leave a message below 🙂
St. Jerome, pray for me!
UPDATE 05/20/14: Meg Hunter-Kilmer has added an article on this subject and presents an alternative reading plan.