Yesterday I argued for a hefty Bible at the lectern. Weighty truths, its seems to me, are fittingly stored in weighty tomes. That doesn’t mean that I’m opposed to pocket Bibles or bible verses that you can call up on your cell phone—or for that matter to any form of scripture. Sometimes convenience speaks in favor of various media.
But as one reader observed: Catholics place the blessed sacrament in a prized place within the Church, and we ought to do something analogous with the Word of God, which after all makes Christ present to us in the ancient scriptures of Israel and in the apostolic witness of the New Testament.
But another reader, the Assistant Village Idiot (it’s a tough job, I’m sure, and requires assistance), pointed out that recitation of scripture from memory is also a very powerful symbol. To which I say: Quite right!
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