The Catechism on Sacred Scripture - Sections 107 & 108

107 The inspired books teach the truth. "Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures."⁷²
 
108 Still, the Christian faith is not a "religion of the book." Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, a word which is "not a written and mute word, but the Word which is incarnate and living".⁷³ If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, "open [our] minds to understand the Scriptures."⁷⁴

72 DV 11
73 St. Bernard, S. missus est hom. 4,11:PL 183,86
74 Cf. Lk 24:45

Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church 

May 8th: Study and Meditations on This Sunday's Scripture Readings

To help us prepare for this coming Sunday, here are the readings, studies and reflections for this coming Sunday's Scripture readings. This Sunday is the 3rd Sunday of Easter and in this Sundays Gospel Reading we will hear about the Resurrection appearance of Our Lord to the two disciples who were making their way to Emmaus. He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

Here are the Scripture readings from the U.S. Catholic bishops website.

My own weekly study can be found here under "Current Study."

Here are three audio reflections on the readings by Sister Ann Shields, Dr. Scott Hahn and Fr. Robert Barron.

Here are a pair of Catholic Bible study podcasts on the Gospel Reading, each about an hour long:

--Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother
--St. Martha's Adult Faith Formation

The Navarre Bible Commentary for each reading can be viewed here.

Further study resources for the Readings: St. Charles Borromeo Bible Study can be found here, and Catholic Matters can be found here.

Please consider supporting those who provide these free resources. If you would like to prayerfully consider a donation to help the Sunday Scripture Study for Catholics apostolate with the cost of maintaining the website server, please go to the main page here.

Discussion, questions and charitable comments are always welcome. Have a blessed week!

The Catechism on Sacred Scripture - Section 106

106 God inspired the human authors of the sacred books. "To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more."⁷¹

71 Dei Verbum 11


Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church 

The Catechism on Sacred Scripture - Section 105

105 God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit."⁶⁹
 
"For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself."⁷⁰

69 DV 11.
70 DV 11; cf. Jn 20:31; 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:19-21; 3:15-16.

Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church 

The Catechism on Sacred Scripture - Section 104

104 In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human word, "but as what it really is, the word of God" [1 Thes 2:13; cf. Dei Verbum 24]. "In the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them." [Dei Verbum 21]

Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church 

The Catechism on Sacred Scripture - Sections 102 & 103

102 Through all the words of Sacred Scripture, God speaks only one single Word, his one Utterance in whom he expresses himself completely [Cf. Heb 1:1-3]:

You recall that one and the same Word of God extends throughout Scripture, that it is one and the same Utterance that resounds in the mouths of all the sacred writers, since he who was in the beginning God with God has no need of separate syllables; for he is not subject to time [St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 103,4,1:PL 37,1378; cf. Ps 104; Jn 1:1].

103 For this reason, the Church has always venerated the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord's Body. She never ceases to present to the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God's Word and Christ's Body [Cf. Dei Verbum 21].

Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church 

The Catechism on Sacred Scripture - Section 101

CHRIST - THE UNIQUE WORD OF SACRED SCRIPTURE
 
101 In order to reveal himself to men, in the condescension of his goodness God speaks to them in human words: "Indeed the words of God, expressed in the words of men, are in every way like human language, just as the Word of the eternal Father, when he took on himself the flesh of human weakness, became like men." [Dei Verbum 13.]

Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church