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The Word of God Sunday
January 26, 2020 @ 8:00 am - January 31, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
In September 2019, Pope Francis issued a letter establishing the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time as Word of God Sunday, stating” Devoting a specific Sunday of the liturgical year to the word of God can enable the Church to experience anew how the risen Lord opens up for us the treasury of his word and enables us to proclaim its unfathomable riches before the world.”
Pope Francis’s Apostolic Letter Instituting the Sunday of the Word of God
An icon of the encounter with Jesus on the road to Emmaus was chosen as the official logo for the worldwide celebration of the Sunday of the Word of God. Details of the icon are in this article if you are interested.
http://cny.org/…/official-logo-for-the-sunday-of-the-word-o…
Feeding Your Family – Food for the Soul
Recent surveys have shown that few Catholics read the Bible on their own or as a family. But what better place is there to encounter the person of Jesus Christ than in God’s Word? As St. Jerome once noted, “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”
The Church continually invites us to return to God’s Word. For when we pray with the Bible—personally and in our homes—our encounter with the living Word of God is not a mere intellectual exercise but a spiritually nourishing feast. As we find ways to share God’s Word in our homes we will experience firsthand what the Second Vatican Council means in Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum) when it states that “in the sacred books the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them.
And such is the force and power of the Word of God that it can serve the Church as her support and vigor, and the children of the Church as strength for their faith, food for the soul, and a pure and lasting fount of spiritual life” (no. 21, in Flannery).
You might be interested in one of many videos, audios, and texts available on Formed.org
For children: https://watch.formed.org/…/the-animated-bible-series-the-cr…
For all: https://watch.formed.org/…/formed-daily-the-bible-is-a-love…