Underline meaningful passages, note prayers in the margins, write down things that impact your spiritual life. E-versions are okay in a pinch, but you’ll find that the more time you spend in an “actual” Bible, the easier you’ll find your way around it, the more you’ll be aware of the context when you read, and the more comfortable you’ll be just picking it up and spending time there on a daily basis. Invest in one for reading that you can take with you in the car, to mass, on the airplane.
Or at least a couple of decades if you read it all the time, and you can have it re-bound then if you need to. If you are able, I personally recommend that you invest in more than one, as follows: Start with a well-made Bible for personal reading …Ī well-bound, leather Bible can last a lifetime. There are advantages to each, so read on. Here are a few of the Bibles I keep handy… After all, there are several Catholic translations in English and now they are available in multiple versions suited for study, for prayer, and so on. The answer isn’t easy, if you want just one Bible. For ‘we speak to him when we pray we listen to him when we read the divine oracles’” ( Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2653). … Let them remember, however, that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that a dialogue takes place between God and man. 3:8) by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. “The Church forcefully and specially exhorts all the Christian faithful … to learn ‘the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ’ (Phil. Which brings me to the question I seem to get more often than any other: Which Bible should I use? Ever since Vatican II, interest in Scripture has been growing as Catholics answer the call to make reading the Bible - not just listening at Mass - a part of their lives: Augustine, who famously heard God speaking to him personally in Scripture after hearing the cry, “Take up and read.” It’s what motivates me to do what I do through this website, inviting people to “Come into the Word” and find life.
Both the Bible and the Institute are named after St. A Bible lies open at the bottom of the design, while two trees arch upward from it and the wings of the Holy Spirit hover above, giving light and illumination to the words. Isn’t it beautiful? I love the cover, which evokes my favorite image in Psalms: the person who is rooted in God’s word, compared to a tree that is planted by streams of water and therefore flourishes even in drought.
The new Augustine Bible (ESV-Catholic Edition), in its slipcase.