Mormons love to mark all over their scriptures. They like to use highlighters and red pencils, and even sell guides that help you draw neat lines underneath the scriptures you’re trying to highlight. I even had a set of scripture stickers that put pretty colored pictures on key pages of my Quad.
So why is it so hard for me to mark in my nice, pristine Catholic Bible and missal? Am I afraid I’m going to break it?
What I really want is a Sticker set, but for the Latin missal. I want there to be stickers for Stand, Kneel, Sit, Genuflect, Audible Priest, Respond here, etc. So I’ll have a nice, pretty Missal, without lots of scribbles. But with the notes I need. I tried to make some yesterday, but my printer is out of Magenta, so everything came out an odd shade of blue. I’m thinking I’ll bring a pad of Post-it notes and make notes where I should put stickers, and then make some custom labels after I get a new ink cartridge for my computer at home.
But all of my Mormon scriptures are scribbled like crazy, especially my old Seminary scriptures (which I still have btw). If I scribbled on it, I knew I had studied it. I often put notes in the binder.
It just occured to me that I would have no idea how to “scripture study” as a Catholic.
May 7, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I know what you mean. A long time ago, I started just highlighting the key word in a verse. That way I don’t end up with a bunch of red pages:)
May 8, 2007 at 2:17 am
I wrote to you yesterday….I know just what you mean! We need to get down and really get into our Catholic bible. Let’s start a Catholic Women’s Institute!
May 8, 2007 at 3:59 am
Honey, you do realize that I can print on label stock at work, in vivid color, any time you’d like, right?
Just save it as a PDF and email it to me and tell me where the stock is.
bzzzzz
May 8, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Everyone needs to email Ignatius Press at info@ignatius.com and ask for them to publish a wide-margin Bible.
May 11, 2007 at 7:43 am
Oh gosh, I know EXACTLY what you mean. My old LDS KJV is marked and bent and loved to death, but my new Bibles are practically untouched.
So is my Book of Common Prayer, aside from the date of Baptism, first Communion, and Chrismation in the front.
So, I bought this.
It’s extremely helpful because it has, at the bottom of each page, Greek/Hebrew explanations (which I desperately missed) as well as historical/cultural explanations. It was assembled by a team of Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican scholars.
Also, because it already has a dictionary/textbook feel, I don’t feel any guilt about marking it up to death!
Whenever I think a verse is particularly moving, I just write it down on a notecard, and tuck it away.
Speaking of verses that are particularly moving, I LOVED the Gospel reading last week (two weeks?) ago. Revelation 21:1-7 – good stuff.
May 11, 2007 at 7:44 am
One more thing – I still keep a KJV handy, because I love the archaic language! I never write in it though.
June 6, 2007 at 3:26 am
Don’t you find it interesting to use both the LDS KJV and the catholic bible to compare and contrast? I am entrigued by how the same chapter/verse can be described or interpreted in a different manner in each book’s explanations. It helped me with my sharing with Mormon women at their Institute meetings. I felt so safe when I had my own bible, along with theirs to support or refute a lesson.
July 4, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Write in it. Highlight it. Mark it up with notes!
Study it. Live it!
There’s nothing wrong with your old practice.
Peace
July 12, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Ok, maybe you didn’t realize it but (in most parishes) everyday your local parish has Bible study. A priest or deacon reads passages from both the Gospels and either OT or non-Gospel NT and usually interprets it as well. It done right before the liturgy of the Eucharist in the liturgy of the Word. Look at it this way: “Go everyday to Mass and get a good scripture study included on almost the entire Bible in about about three years.” That is the easiest Scripture study I know about. (EWTN runs a daily Mass (repeated several times) if you can’t make it to daily Mass)
August 4, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Scripture study the catholic way
http://fisheaters.com/lectiodivina.html