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From the BBC: Quote:Pope to star in TV Bible marathon
By David Willey
BBC News, Rome
Pope Benedict XVI has agreed to take part in a Bible-reading marathon on Italian television in October.
The Pope will start off the event on 5 October with the first chapter of Genesis, read in Italian in Saint Peter's Basilica.
The Italian state radio and TV broadcaster Rai has organised the continuous reading of the whole bible.
It will go on for six days and six nights. After the Pope, a wide variety of people will take over the reading.
Rome's chief Rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, will read from the text in Hebrew.
The organisers of the Bible marathon said that Muslims would also be welcome to take part if they were interested.
Other readers will include academics, students, politicians, sports stars, soldiers and factory workers.
They will each read passages lasting between four and eight minutes and there will be a brief pause for a musical reflection every 90 minutes.
Pope Benedict is expected to read for a whole hour. It has not yet been decided whether his contribution will be live or recorded in advance.
A high ranking Vatican official, Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi, said the reason why the Pope agreed to take part was that he would not be commenting, simply reading the text.
The Pope wants the Catholic Church to go back to studying and deepening its knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, he said. The caption on the photo below reads: "The Pope wants the Catholic Church to deepen its knowledge of the Bible." Yada attached the following image(s): |
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Good. It's a start. Catholics should deepen their knowledge of Scripture. May be some will have a light bulb moment. May be some will start questioning where their church gets off thinking it's the 'true church'. One can only hope. Doubt that the Hebrew reading will say Yahuweh or Yahushua.
Good also that Pope Ben won't be offering his spin on things. Bet it will be a recorded session. Doubt that he would want to mispronounce anything.
He kind of reminds me of Benny Hinn in the above photo. Must be the clothing. They probably have more in common than their wardrobes. ;o)
I'm getting sarcastic. I better go.
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Shalom All,
Perhaps some may feel that the Catholics shall have a better chance now that they are to deepen their knowledge of Scripture, but I have to ask, which version? The one with the imprimatur? Reading that version does little for understanding and you can be sure that the understanding shall be imparted by the priests, bishops, archbishops, cardinals and the pope.
Another thing is that Catholics may start revering the Scriptures and put it on a pedestal or altar, not fully realising that knowing and understanding that what's written inside is more important than the object itself.
Two generations ago we were allowed to pray in our mother tongue instead of Latin. A generation ago we were allowed to read the officially approved Catholic bible in the vernacular. But little has changed since then. Ignorance still prevails. And now they are going to have a marathon reading session for six days and six nights... with portions in Hebrew... to what end? With Muslims invited to read? From a book they openly despise and burn whenever they can? Can this get any worse? |
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