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The Roman Catholic Bible has 27 books of the New Testament and 46 books of the Old Testament. Start reading the Bible with The Gospel of Mark because it is short, easy and historical.
Pray with the Bible. Prayer is a conversation with God, the Virgin Mary or the saints, and the Church recommends prayer because it strengths the recognition of God’s presence and draws us closer to Him.
“And as well as this, the Spirit too comes to help us in our weakness, for, when we do not know how to pray properly, then the Spirit personally makes our petitions for us in groans that cannot be put into words; and he who can see into all hearts knows what the Spirit means because the prayers that the Spirit makes for God’s holy people are always in accordance with the mind of God.” (Romans 8:26-27)
The Holy Spirit presents the divine truth and intercedes for us before the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit communicates with us primarily through the Bible. We pray to God reading the Bible, and the dialogue flows primarily from Him.
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Pertinent advice to pray with the Bible
1. Set a prayerful mood of quiet.
2. Pray to the Holy Spirit to open your mind and heart to the Word of God.
3. Read slowly a passage the Bible. Examine footnotes and commentary about the passage.
4. Reread the passage slowly and prayerfully. The first reading is for the mind and the second is for the heart.
5. Be quiet and let the Word of God continue to resonate in your heart, mind and soul.
6. Thank God for the Word and ask Him for the Grace to apply the Word in your life.
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The Holy Spirit has the nature of the Father and the Son, and communicates with them and us. We are children of the GODFATHER, the same as Jesus, the Holy Spirit is the power of the GODFATHER thru us, and a reflection of the WORD of Christ in us.
“He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, children born not of natural generation nor by human choice decision nor by a man’s decision but of God.
And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.
John testified concerning him and crying out, saying, ‘This was he of whom I said. The one who is coming after me ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.'” (John 1:10-15)