How many hours a week do you spend reading scripture?

[KC Catholic]

If you take to study scripture - what are you currently studying?

 

[Steadfast]

Hi KC,

My wife and I attend a wonderful Bible Study weekly and I also observe the Liturgy of the Hours daily, (Morning and Evening prayer.) which involves Scripture readings and reflections.

We're currently studying II Peter and Song of Songs.

God bless

 

[JohnR7]

>>If you take to study scripture - what are you currently studying?

I learn a lot through the my church and the Bible collage I attend. We just finished a study on the Jesus attitude. How we are to study Jesus to see what His attitude was and how we are to have the same attitude He had. To begin with, His attitude was that He wanted to always please the Father, also, He went about doing good and healing the people. So we should always seek to be well pleasing to the father. We should help people receive the miracle power and healing they need from God. It takes the power of God at work in us to transform us into the Children of God.

We are about finished with our study on the Jesus attitude and next we are going to do a study on the Jesus reality. Also, I just did a brief study on Gideon and also a brief study in the new testament on the law of God. Thanks, JohnR7

 

[Avila]

DH and I are trying to start reading/studying the Scriptures again for this Lent. So, we're doing better than just hearing them at Mass. We have started our study by watching Franco Zefferelli's Jesus of Nazareth. Then we plan on going through the Gospels next. When we left off our OT study, we were somewhere in Sirach, so we might read from there too.

 

[nyj]

Currently I'm only involved in our lector Scripture study at our parish, though I'm trying to get the Young Adult series restarted. We study the Scriptures used for the Mass a week ahead of time. We go over the history of the period, an overview of the book, and then open up the book read the sections to be proclaimed at Mass and then break them open individually.

As for how much time I spend reading my Bible, I wish you had the option "Not as much as I would like."

I'm a huge fan of "Fiddler on the Roof" and in the song "If I Were a Rich Man" there is a verse in there that Tevye sings which I can completely sympathize with:

If I were rich, I'd have the time that I lack
To sit in the synagogue and pray.
And maybe have a seat by the Eastern wall.
And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, several hours every day.
That would be the sweetest thing of all.

Most indeed, that would be the sweetest thing of all. I must admit, that verse and the way he sorrowfully sings it always brings a tear to my eye.

 

[VOW]

Several years ago, I started attending weekday Mass/Communion service during lunchtime at a Church near my work. The weekday Readings are not in the Missalette. I'm hearing-impaired, and being able to follow a printed page helps me to stay focused on the service. I started typing up the Daily Readings to take with me.

Over time, I have offered the Daily Readings to others, and I've got about twenty people now who receive the Readings in email. I also started a Prayer List, which I also send out on weekdays.

Unfortunately, I've slacked off on my lunchtime Church attendance. Now that it's the Lenten season, I am going to push myself to go back. I can make up more excuses than a whiny kid refusing to take a bath, LOL, but I ALWAYS am grateful and at peace when I go. (the exercise of the quarter-mile walk is wonderful, too!)

I have the Catholic Study Bible near the computer at home, and The New American Bible plus a KJV Bible at work. All the Bibles are well-trained, they automatically open to the Psalms.

I usually get a copy of the Liturgical Calendar at www.themass.org, because the little box on the Sunday bulletin sometimes doesn't show the Psalms. If I'm pressed for time, I'll "cheat" by cutting and pasting the Readings from that website, but it's just not the same. I bought a CD-ROM with the New American Bible and study guide and a bunch of other goodies, but I haven't used it in ages. There's a sense of achievement when I READ from the Book and then process the words through my brain to my fingers and onto the keyboard. It's an act of love, for want of a better description.

I've rambled enough. Anyway, you can see why I get a "tad" upset when folks say that Catholics never read the Bible!


Peace be with you,
~VOW

 

[VOW]

Post Script:

I confess that I prefer the New American Bible over the KJV; with all the THEEs and THOUs and HATHs, I get tho dithcontherted!


Peath, I mean, Peace be with you,
~VOW

 

[LilyLamb]

Have you tried the New Jerusalem Bible?? This version was a great comfort to me right after my ex-husband left our family ... the Book of Psalms is all highlighted and underlined ... I filled the front and back lining with prayer cards for reflection in between reading ... my favorite is "The Madonna of the Street". I still use this version alot, especially when comparing verses with KJV and NJKV and my husband's New Century Version.

 

[nyj]

Originally posted by LilyLamb
Have you tried the New Jerusalem Bible?? This version was a great comfort to me right after my ex-husband left our family ... the Book of Psalms is all highlighted and underlined ... I filled the front and back lining with prayer cards for reflection in between reading ... my favorite is "The Madonna of the Street". I still use this version alot, especially when comparing verses with KJV and NJKV and my husband's New Century Version.

I personally love my Jerusalem Bible (not a NJB, just the old JB). It took me a month or more to hunt down a reasonably priced copy (finally got mine from Ebay for about 5 dollars). However, I must admit that I prefer to read the KJV when it comes to the Psalms. Psalm 23 written any other way just doesn't contain the sort of "emotion" for me that I'm looking for. Though, for the rest of my Bible reading, I usually read out of my NAB, JB or RSV with a smidgen of NASB tossed in for good effect.