For Catholics who own a Bible they were never taught to read
You were handed a Bible.Nobody showed you how to read it.
Most of us were taught the Mass, the Rosary and the sacraments. Then we were given seventy-three books, written over more than a thousand years by people we were never introduced to, and left to make sense of them alone. Getting lost in Scripture is not a failure of faith. It is what happens to anyone who opens a book that old without the background, and the background is what this gives you, one page at a time.
- One page for each of the 73 books, in the order your Bible has them
- Who wrote it, when, what it is about and who is in it
- Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch and both Maccabees included
- About four minutes a page, read before the book itself
- Sixty days to see if it helps, or your money back
- 60-day guarantee
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- No subscription
You started at Genesis.Almost everyone stops at Leviticus.
Genesis reads like a story. So does Exodus. Then Leviticus arrives and the story stops dead: offerings, purity laws, rules for mildew on the walls of a house. Nobody warned you that the writing had changed, because nobody told you what Leviticus is. It is a handbook for Israel’s priests, bound into the same cover as the story with no signpost between them. Know that before you start, and it stops being a wall. The same goes for Numbers, for the prophets, for every book that ever made you lose the thread.
- The writing changes from story to law without warning
- The names and customs assume you were there
- The notes in most Bibles were written for scholars
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Seven books in your Biblethat almost every guide leaves out.
Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch and First and Second Maccabees have belonged to the Church’s Bible since its earliest centuries, and the Council of Trent confirmed all 73 books in 1546. Protestant Bibles leave the seven out, so nearly every Bible guide on sale, written for 66 books, leaves them out too. You hear them at Mass all the same. If you have been to a Catholic funeral, there is a fair chance the first reading came from Wisdom or Second Maccabees.
- Each of the seven gets a full page of its own
- Most guides on sale stop at 66 books
- Your Bible has 73, and so does this
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“A reading from the Book of Sirach.”This time you will know what that means.
You have heard Scripture read aloud nearly every Sunday of your life, often without quite knowing where it came from or why it was chosen. After Mass, turn to the page for whichever book the reading came from. Four minutes later you know who wrote it, when, and what it was answering, and the readings start to sound less like a list and more like one long story the Church has been telling you a little at a time.
- The lector names the book before every reading
- Its page takes about four minutes after Mass
- From Advent, the Sunday Gospels come from Mark
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You cannot hand onwhat nobody handed to you.
Many of us are watching children and grandchildren drift from the Church, and when they push back the questions are often about Scripture. Why is the Catholic Bible longer? Where is that in the Bible? What does that passage actually mean? Not having an answer is nothing to be ashamed of, because nobody taught you. But knowing your own Bible means you can have those conversations calmly, without needing to win them. The Companion will not bring anyone home on its own. It gives you something true to say when they ask.
- Why the Catholic Bible has 73 books
- Where the Sunday readings come from
- What a hard passage was written to say
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Seventy Three Catholic Bible Companion
Seventy Three Catholic Bible Companion
One clear page for every book of Scripture, so the Bible you already own finally makes sense.
Not sure what you have? Open the contents page. If Tobit and the Maccabees are listed, your Bible has every book the Companion covers.
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There is nothing to fill in, no group to keep up with and no schedule to fall behind on. Miss a month and nothing is waiting for you. Open it to whatever you are reading next.
Every book of the Catholic Bible gets its own page, in order from Genesis to Revelation. Each page answers the same four questions: who wrote it and when, what it is about, what the Church has always understood it to teach, and who is in it. It is a reference, not a workbook, so there is nothing to fill in. Burgundy cover with gold foil and a ribbon marker, large high-contrast type, about 7 by 10 inches.
You pay once, with no subscription and nothing that renews. If it does not make Scripture clearer within 60 days, email us and we refund you in full. Nothing to send back.
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I have wanted to read the Bible more consistently for years, but I would get lost whenever I came across a book I did not know much about. This makes it much easier to understand what I am reading. I can read the one-page overview first, then go straight into the book itself without stopping to look everything up. I have been keeping it next to my Bible and using it several times a week.
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