Wow
Today’s mind-blowing Biblical Studies idea:
“Reading the Scriptures is like going to Communion.” –Dr. Miletic.
We were talking about the Catechism and doing what we would call in the English Department a “Close reading”, where we read the text and then dig around in it for its meaning. The text at hand was paragraph 103, which says that we (The Church) venerates Scripture as it does Christ’s body.
Dr. Miletic then asked us for the connection between the two. We hemmed and hawed.
“What do you do when you go to communion?”
Receive Jesus–body, soul, divinity.
“Yes. And that is also what you do when you read Scripture. Reading Scripture is like going to Communion.”
I was blown away. Really. I had never thought of this that way. “The scriptures are sacramental,” he continued. “That’s why only an ordained minister can read the Gospel.”
Wow. The same thing happens we when we read scripture as happens when we receive Communion! And I have a Bible around all the time!
I will be reading more of my Bible, that’s for sure.
