What better way to think it through than to write a book? I’d better have clarity about the basic terms. I know that my primary vocation is holiness, and I have a dwindling number of years left to answer the call. Scott Hahn: I arrived at a certain age when it’s normal to take stock and look back and try to get perspective on life. Hahn recently spoke with Catholic World Report about his new book, the meaning of holiness, and how we can strive to be holy.Ĭatholic World Report: How did the book come about? But, as Hahn shows in this book, the truth is just the opposite. Holiness is a topic that seems straightforward enough, to the point that it probably doesn’t need much unpacking or analysis. His latest book is Holy Is His Name: The Transforming Power of God’s Holiness in Scripture (Emmaus Road, 2023). He has also prepared (along with others) the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible. Hahn is the author of dozens of books, including The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture: How the Bible Became a Secular Book (with Benjamin Wiker), the Catholic Bible Dictionary, Hope to Die: The Christian Meaning of Death and the Resurrection of the Body, and Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism (along with his wife, Kimberly Hahn). Scott Hahn’s latest effort is an example of a book that we didn’t even know we needed. There might be a topic that we think we know well, or that we think has been addressed sufficiently, or that is so simplistic that a book-length treatment wouldn’t even be possible. This online Bible study is free to all registered users.Sometimes the best books are those that we didn’t even know we needed. Using the Book of Revelation, we’ll see how, in the Liturgy of the Eucharist, we are lifted up to a real participation with the angels and saints in the heavenly liturgy.įinally, we ‘ll look at how in the Mass we renew our covenant with God - the new covenant made in the blood of Jesus which makes us children of God and heirs of the divine promises found in the Bible. We’ll study how the great events of salvation history are re-read and re-lived in the “today” of the Church’s Liturgy of the Word. In the Mass, the story of salvation told in the Bible continues - is made real and present - in our lives. The Bible was made for the Liturgy and the Liturgy is where the Bible was meant to be proclaimed, expounded, interpreted and “heard.” That’s why, from the Sign of the Cross and the priest’s greeting: “The Lord be with you,” the Mass is one long biblical prayer - a tapestry woven from a fabric of biblical passages, phrases, and allusions. ![]() In fact, one could argue that without the Bible there would be no Mass, and without the Mass there would be no Bible. Following an overview of the Eucharist in the New Testament, we look at the deep roots of the Mass in the biblical history of sacrifice - a history that culminates with the Last Supper and the institution of the Eucharist.īesides the Old and New Testament readings we hear each Sunday, what does the Bible have to do with the Mass? Everything. ![]() In this course we explore the intimate and inseparable relationship between the Bible and the Mass.
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