Scripture is at the centre of everything the Church does. The word of God shapes our prayer and worship.
The Bible shows us how to understand the world, how we are called to live and relate to each other.‘Everyone should carry a small Bible or pocket edition of the Gospels and should find at least a few minutes every day to read the word of God.’ (Pope Francis, 2014)
2020 is the 10th anniversary of Verbum Domini – Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Exhortation on ‘The Word of the Lord’ and
the 1,600 anniversary of St Jerome’s death.
These dates have inspired the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales, in partnership with Bible Society, to launch this exciting initiative ‘The God who Speaks’.
Saint Jerome recalls that we can never read Scripture simply on our own. We come up against too many closed doors and we slip too easily into error. The Bible was written by the People of God for the People of God, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Only in this communion with the People of God can we truly enter as a “we” into the heart of the truth that God himself wishes to convey to us.[89] Jerome, for whom “ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ”,[90] states that the ecclesial dimension of biblical interpretation is not a requirement imposed from without: the Book is the very voice of the pilgrim People of God, and only within the faith of this People are we, so to speak, attuned to understand sacred Scripture. An authentic interpretation of the Bible must always be in harmony with the faith of the Catholic Church. He thus wrote to a priest: “Remain firmly attached to the traditional doctrine that you have been taught, so that you may exhort according to sound doctrine and confound those who contradict it”. Verbum |Domini [91]
zie voor nog veel meer informatie de website voor dit jubileumjaar van de bisschoppenconferentie van Engeland en Wales
