The readings at Sunday Mass require careful reflective study in advance, by priest, parishioner and reader alike. There are some invaluable study guides to help us deepen our appreciation and understanding POPE BENEDICT encouraged “a new season of greater love for sacred Scripture on the part of every member of the People of God” (Verbum Domini 72) in one of the major documents of his pontificate – the exhortation following the 2008 Bishops’ Synod on “the Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church”.  As the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum) approaches, we would do well to recall its closing words: “Just as the life of the Church is strengthened through more f