Welcome to the Pauline Family's "Year of the Bible"! I'm reading the Bible clear through this year, and I invite you to read along with me. But first, let us pray:
My God, I adore and thank your loving and wise Providence, manifested on every page of Sacred Scripture. You have always been close to sinful and erring humanity, and have indicated the way and given hope. Amid the shadows of error and corruption, you kindled the light of your truth; amid universal corruption, you are the Just One; amid so much idolatry, humanity in every corner of the earth has cultivated a sincere worship of you.
Let my reading today increase my trust in your goodness, your mercy, and your unfailing faithfulness.
Today's chapters are 1 Chronicles 5-7 and (for Lent) Psalm 64.
With the geneaologies of the tribes of Israel, I have to confess I am in need of extra support. In chapel, I asked Jesus: "How is this the Word of God?" Well, in addition to some very helpful material in the book from Drs Bergsma and Pitre (which, believe me, I will be using!), I found this from a 1933 book by Blessed James Alberione called "Read the Sacred Scriptures":
The Bible has this objective: Right before the reader's eyes it presents, almost like a magnificent film, all of humanity with its greatness and its flaws, its falls and its ignorance, so as to teach people who to order their lives, how to overcome their passions and acquire virtue, in such a way as to one day be crowned victorious in heaven.
Since many of the names in the upcoming pages of genealogy will by now be somewhat familiar to us, some of the lessons may already begin to take root. But since the Books of Chronicles fill in "what was left aside" in the stories previously told (and in other cases offer a very different perspective), there will be new things ahead, too.
Start reading 1 Chronicles here and Psalm 64 here.
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