If like me you had avoidance of the scriptures drummed into you growing up, then here is another gem from Benedict XVI. The pope issued Verbum Domini after the Synod of Bishops gathered to study the word of God in October of 2008. (You may ask why the U. S. Church is set up so that papal documents have little effect in America – but that is for another time.)
To start with, Benedict says: “There is no greater priority than this: to enable the people of our time once more to encounter God, the God who speaks to us and shares his love so that we might have life in abundance (cf. Jn 10:10).”
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