Crack the Book, brothers

"All Scripture is a single book and this book is Christ." To nourish oneself with Scripture is to nourish oneself with Christ: "Ignorance of the Scriptures," affirms St. Jerome, "is ignorance of Christ. "Whoever wants to live from Jesus must listen incessantly to the Sacred Scriptures, no one excepted. It is in them that the countenance of the beloved is revealed, …

Archbishop Bruno Forte The Word for Living: Sacred Scripture and the Beauty of God, Pastoral Letter for 2006-2007