St James Catholic Church

Update on Lenten Scripture Study

Deacon Bello's Message:

The Lenten Scripture Study will continue with its third session on Sunday, March 18, at 6:30 pm in the Knecht Gym Conference Room, the same time and same location as the first two classes. (Click here to visit the 2007 Lenten Scripture Study Web page.)

For the third session, the class voted to look at three of the major themes of the Gospel of Luke:

1. Luke as the Gospel of Prayer
2. Luke as the Gospel of Women
3. Luke as the Gospel of the Holy Spirit

Those who attend are invited to find any references to those three themes in the Gospel of Luke, outside the Infancy Narratives (our focus in Class Two) and the Passion Narrative (our focus in our last class). All are invited. Please bring your Bibles.

Class Handouts:

• Why Read Scripture
• Prayers to the Holy Spirt (1)
• Understanding of Scripture by St. Bonaventure
• Pope Benedict XVI, Bonaventure and Faith

Canceled: This Evening's Lenten Scripture Study

This evening's session of the Lenten Scripture Study at St. James Catholic Church has been canceled due to inclement weather.  The Lenten Scripture Study will begin with Session One next Sunday Evening.

Lenten Scripture Study with Deacon Bello

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LENTEN SCRIPTURE STUDY

Deacon Bello's five-week Scripture Study will start the first Sunday of Lent, February 25, at 6:30 p.m. in the Knecht Gym Conference Room. The overall focus will be on the Gospel of St. Luke, but the focus of the first class will be on two important questions:

First, why should Catholics read, study, pray and discuss Sacred Scriptures?

Second, how should Catholics read, study, pray and discuss Sacred 'Scriptures? This will not be so much a "scholarly, highhbrow"

Scripture Study as a class open to all who are interested. Thus, you are invited to think about, formulate and share your own answers to the two questions above. The classes will be both lecture and interactive, and hopefully fun as well. Please bring your bibles. Deacon Bello will be using the Revised New American Bible, the translation used at Masses. We will start at 6:30 p.m. with a prayer, and we'll probably go over an hour, but less than two hours. "Homework" will be assigned after the first class.

Bible Course offered by Deacon Tom Bello

On four consecutive Sundays, beginning February 25 and continuing through March 25, Deacon Tom Bello will lead us on a tour of the Gospel of Luke.  Class begins at 6:30 PM and ends at 8:00 PM and will be held in the Knecht Conference Room.