Father John writes:

Next Sunday is dedicated to the topic “the God who speaks”. There is a great effort this year to focus on the Bible. When I was at Catholic school (many years ago) the most important book we studied was the Catechism. Most of you were probably familiar with the little red book of questions and answers by which we learned our faith.

There were many quotations in it from the Bible, and those were the selected Words of God mostly presented to us. Other than that, there was great emphasis on learning about the Sacraments and the ten Commandments.

In recent times we have gradually rediscovered the riches of our Bible through which our God speaks to us. There is no end to learning about the love of God for each one of us and just as you long to receive letters (or nowadays e-mails) from those you love, so we long to hear God speak to us through the Scriptures.