Adult Bible Study

Bible Study is completed for the summer. There will be no further sessions until the fall. 
“THUS SAYS THE LORD”: THE PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE
Reading Assignments
Here at CCOP, our mission is “To know Christ better, live as He calls us to live, and make Him better known.”  But the greatest bible scholar Saint Jerome said, in the 4th Century, “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” This is why we need to know the bible in a very intimate way. By intimate way is meant not only reading the bible, but to know what the bible is, what kind of information we must expect from it, who wrote it, how it was written, etc.  We need to know the bible intimately in order to understand what we read from it. For instance, we do not read the bible as we would read a historical report, or a newspaper, or a novel.  

​CCOP Adult Bible Study seeks to make participants knowledgeable, conversant, familiar and, hence, comfortable in using the bible. In short, our Bible Study goal is to help participants become intimate and fall in love with the bible.  We resume our sessions on Thursday February 8 at 7:30 PM and Friday February 9 at 9:30 AM, all at Saint Augustine Hall.  This year, 2018, we will study THE PROPHETS, aka THE PROPHETIC BOOKS/WRITINGS, or simply PROPHECY IN THE BIBLE. Participants and all those who would like to join us are required to purchase and read the book Introduction to the Bible: A Catholic Guide to Studying Scripture by Stephen J. Binz.  This book is available for purchase at a subsidized price of $7 in the offices of both Saint Elizabeth Seton and Saint Augustine campuses.  Come and learn to know Christ better and make him better known!

​Fr. Kwame
WEEKLY ​MEETING TIMES
Thursday Evenings At 7:30 p.m.
St. Augustine Hall
or
Friday Mornings At 9:30 a.m.
St. Augustine Hall


2018 BIBLE STUDY SCHEDULE (Subject to Change)

​February
Introduction to the Prophets
A Brief History of Israel: Pre-exilic, Exilic, and Post-exilic Times
 
March
Oral/Former Prophets
Abraham and Moses; Judges, Samuel and Guilds of Prophets; Gad, Nathan and Ahiya; Elijah and Elisha
 
April - June
Writing/Latter Prophets (Pre-exilic)
Amos, Hosea, and I-Isaiah; Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, and Habakkuk; Jeremiah
 
September - October
Writing/Latter Prophets (Exilic)
Ezekiel and II-Isaiah; Haggai, I-Zechariah and Malachi
 
November
Writing/Latter Prophets (Post-exilic)
Obadiah, III-Isaiah, Joel, II-Zechariah, and Jonah
 
December
​New Testament Prophets – Jesus the Christ