Studying Scripture, A Time of Adoration
Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral
Diocese of San Bernardino, California, United States of America
I believe in the need for an atmosphere of prayer and adoration when coming to the STUDY of WORSHIP through scripture. Adoration is necessary to come to a knowledge of the ETERNITY of A WORD! This WORD is CHRIST in FLESH!
As I study and adore our Lord in the EUCHARIST as BREAD of LIFE and WORD of the FATHER; I am drawn to love HIM and study a PERSON! Have you ever studied a person like an artist ready to paint or sculpt a masterpiece? I have.
At a certain point, you will learn the features of a human being's face and the FACE I study in the WORK of Scripture and Authority in writing is the FACE of CHRIST! The Eternal Word is Jesus.
As an Artist, Director of a Choir, Teacher and Authority in Scripture; the Work of Study comes from a PASSION of knowing a direction and destination. For instance, I know and believe there was a Man who was born of a Woman. This Man is Jesus.
Every man is born of a woman.
This Man we are studying is a Man named Jesus.
And He has a Biography and an Autobiography written by a Person named the Holy Spirit. This Biography and Autobiography is titled, The Bible.
This translation is The Holy Bible, Ignatius Catholic Edition
So you wondered about the edition and how is this a translation vs. another translation in comparison? There are levels in study. The basic level of study may require a grade and average of intensity you wish to study the Word, the Life of Christ. The level I entered into is Catholic.
And as a Catholic, I have been exposed to a protestation of our decision to enter into the intensity. Protestation means interruptions from study. Have you ever studied in a library and suddenly someone walks into the library with a loud abrupt presence of a disruption that every person in the library are interrupted from their work in reading and comprehension? A Protestant interrupts.
I would recommend like every intention in study to maintain an atmosphere towards study and this study comes forth to a depth in a communion of adoration with other persons with a reverence of care like a library as an atmosphere of reading and silence.
At a point of care for your intellectual decision to study, are you in a safe environment to endeavor the study? Or are you surrounded by protestations? Especially, in an environment meant for study? Yes, I am telling you there is a communion necessary for study. If there is someone in the communion causing a disruption, then the atmosphere of unity towards a direction will be disrupted with no end goal or objective.
If, for example, you are invited to attend a Bible Study and the Study has an atmosphere that interrupts a person, then the study is not a study. I would seek another Bible Study that does not interrupt a person abruptly. A true study does not interrupt any person.
A true study is to offer a present reality of engaged realism. Engaged realism requires a listening point of decision amidst a communion of persons who deliver a strong desire to study and come to a knowledge.
Let's say, The Authority is a Teacher who has come to a Point of Interpretation received by Teachers who have seen the interpretation approved with a respectful grace and ecclesial dependency. This is the Magisterium. A mother. Someone saw her as Teacher and a Good one. This Someone represents a wide range of persons. This Someone was a Nobel Prize Winner.
Now, how is this Authority received without a difficulty? Any opposition would be heard respectively and interpreted accordingly. And when the opposition delivers a strong consideration the Authority bestowed on this person will come to its effect. What is the effect? Her Authority hearing the opposition and responding accordingly.
When the opposition comes the continued grace of her Authority delivers. She already won. The opposition delivered an opposition.
At adoration this morning, I was reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church and referenced Scripture through this dependency with Mother. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is an Authority. She is Mother.
Magisterium means Mother. Magisterium means Teacher. Magisterium governs and cares for her children. And She is Woman.
A Man was born of A Woman.
This Man is Jesus.
As a daughter, I learn from Mother. Thus, I learn from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. If as a daughter, I oppose Mother; Father comes in.
And as Father delivers his Hand, Mother and daughter hear the decision.
And I love the Catechism of the Catholic Church and was told it was like mother savoring the delight of cheesecake. And this morning, Mother taught me a beautiful savoring of delight in a section about prayer.
"Prayer is lived in the first place beginning with the realities of creation. The first nine chapters of Genesis describe this relationship with God as an offering of the first-born of Abel's flock, as the invocation of the divine name at the time of Enosh, and as 'walking with God.' Noah's offering is pleasing to God, who blesses him and through him all creation, because his heart was upright and undivided, Noah, like Enoch before him, 'walks with God.' This kind of prayer is lived by many righteous people in all religions." CCC # 2569 Creation - Source of Prayer
I was utterly consoled at the direction of reading and interpreting Scripture as an offering of prayer. The Order of Creation is the direction of prayer and walking with God. And immediately, I shared with our Lord that today I was going to study at the library after adoration and recalled some books I saw in a shelf the other day and remembered my English and American Literature courses at my high school for study and I was finding a thorough communion of decision. This communion of decision was a knowledge of the Order of Author and Writer.
My thoughts went to the Author of the Books East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath, which was at a point of my interpretation the knowledge of the beginning of Creation and the Image of Male and Female. And with an effortless form of prayer and contemplation, I began to read the book of Genesis and found the Order of Creation and the characters of these books coming to a form of literature in American Literature and Study.
Father and Mother are Adam and Eve. The children are Cain, Abel and Seth. There is a story about this family. And the Bible offered an insight to interpreting the books, East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath. When discovering a background of knowledge in high school, I knew the concept, but did not see it until a mature intellectual state of knowledge. What I knew in high school, is not the same in comparison to what I know now as a Graduate with a Religious background and elite state of study.
How did I interpret the books today, September 1, 2021?
The Title
The Author
The Characters
And now learning the Author was a Nobel Prize Winner? There was a harmony. And the symphony of beauty I was hearing came to a Unity of Knowledge and Understanding.
This Unity?
God created them Male and Female.
