Skill 4 U: The Bible Part II

People quote the Bible all the time.  It makes you wonder if they memorize it.  But you know, you probably know more about the Bible than you think. It is used during Mass and prayers.  Using the Bible is easy peasy lemon squeezy.  You guys are know that because you eat your vegetables (Ehh, not really.  We're moms and we know you hide your veggies under your plate or feed them to the dog).

We've written it before and we're writing it again--Everything the Catholic Church does is based upon Jesus and the Bible.  The Mass is chock full of Bible-y stuff.  We have Psalms [Psalms are poems or beautiful writings about God written by David--a king of Israel and Jesus' ancestor]

During Sunday Mass, the lectors [lectors are the grown ups who have get dressed up and read from the altar] read from the Bible.  First something from the Old Testament and secondly mostly from the Epistles [Epistles are fancy words for letters written by the Apostles and other followers of Jesus] in the New Testament. 

The priest or the deacon [deacon is the priest's assistant] read from one of the four Gospels [Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are the dudes who wrote the four Gospels].  The Gospels tell us what Jesus did or said.  The Gospels don't keep track of everything Jesus did.  We don't know when He lost His first tooth or when he went to help Joseph, His foster father, at work.  Good old Joseph was a carpenter.  He built things from wood and he taught Jesus that.

So if your mom's favorite Bible quote, for example, is:

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.  Philippians 4:13

Usually the Bible book is behind the quote.  In this case, it's the blue Philippians 4:13.  Crack open your Bible to the Table of Contents.  Because MC and MM are old, we know that the Philippians is in the New Testament because it mentions Jesus (Christ) by name and He wasn't mentioned by name in the Old Testament.

Anyhoo, look for the Philippians [which is an epistle], chapter 4 verse 13.  See!  Now you can look up lots of stuff.  In fact, email us at catholicism4kids@hotmail.com and let us know if you have a favorite quote.  We may put it under our Fave Quotes section.