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The Return to the Gospel

Return to the Gospel. All through history the Church has experienced renewals and reformers. Reform has always meant a return to the Gospel.
Today however, a return to the Gospel has taken on a special meaning. For centuries (what Paul and Luke have called “the time of the nations”), the Church was the educator of the […]

The Church and the Modern World

In the last four centuries the world has experienced crises, progress and changes than cumulatively in all previous times. Christian faith gave Europeans the energy, security and awareness of their mission in the universe which enabled them to formulate science, develop technology and dominate other continents. Obviously, conquest and colonization sprang from motives very foreign […]

The Bible and World Religions

These few reminders are enough to show that history and biblical traditions only cover a small, though one the most important, area of human history at the crossroads of three continents. Perhaps no other area of the planet has seen so many geological and human upheavals. But most of humanity bypassed this history and experienced […]

What Existed Before the Bible?

For many centuries the Bible was the book, first for the Jewish people and then the Church. Faith was not only an individual matter, and the entire Bible was centered on a covenant of God with humankind. There had been a starting point, stages and, at the end, would take place the recapitulation of our […]

Inclusive Language

It is relatively easy to translate the Bible into classic English. The marriage between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin languages resulted in a rich language full of nuances expressive of abstract ideas – the paradise of the Greeks – and of concrete facts of the Hebrew language as well.
As in many other languages, English used the […]

How to Avoid Misunderstanding the Bible

1. Do not think that you are the first to understand God’s message and that they were not true Christians before you. This would be the way to become a founder of another strange sect.
2. The word of God is life-giving but that does not mean that every word is an instant problem-solver today. Each […]

Where Do We Begin Our Reading of the Bible?

The simplest way is to start with the Gospels where we meet Christ, Who is the Light, the Truth and the Word of God.
Obviously the Old Testament has many important lessons. Yet the person who reads them after having heard Christ understands them differently and discovers a deeper meaning in them.
Some are accustomed to opening […]

The Book in Your Hands

The order of the books: an explanation
In the Pastoral Bible published for the use of Christian Communities, the usual order of the books in the New Testament is maintained: after the four Gospels, there is an Acts of the Apostles, the letters of Paul, the letter to the Hebrews, the letters of James, Peter, Jude […]

Prayer and Scriptures

Tomorrow, God willing, after our Sunday Mass at St. John Church in Ladphrao, and in Rangsit Church, I will be giving a talk on Prayer and Scriptures at our brother Zandro and sister’s Fe’s home in Saraburi.
May God Bless our ways in all our travel destinations and be back to our respective home, fulfilled and […]

The Bible and Tradition

The Bible did not fall from heaven. The books it contains were not proclaimed from the clouds by some heavenly speaker, but rather they were patiently gathered throughout the centuries within the heart of Israel, the people of God, thanks to the faith of its most conscious minorities.
For some eighteen centuries, from Abraham to Jesus, […]