Going Further With God's Word

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, Curtis Mitch, co-editor of the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible, discusses the purpose and features of the study Bible, his personal journey with Scripture, practical tips for incorporating Scripture into daily life, the role of Scripture in prayer, and how to teach children to love scripture. Our conversation emphasizes the importance of understanding scripture within the context of the Catholic faith and provides insights into making Scripture a central part of daily life.

Takeaways

* The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible serves as a catechetical tool to instruct and strengthen faith.

* Study Bibles provide essential context and annotations to help readers understand scripture better.

* Practical ways to incorporate scripture include studying liturgical readings and focusing on one book at a time.

* Scripture is a dialogue with God, enhancing the life of prayer.

* Teaching children to love Scripture can be done through family reading and personal copies of the Bible.

* Understanding Scripture requires humility and reliance on God's guidance.

* The interconnectedness of Scripture helps illuminate Catholic doctrine and teachings.

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0:00.0	What might change if we could get young people to doubt their own doubts, to examine the unexamined,
0:06.3	to open their hearts to the possibility that perhaps what they walked away from is the very
0:11.2	thing that held the solutions they were looking for? What if we could achieve what C.S. Lewis said
0:16.5	could make all the difference? He claimed that all we need to do is to get good people to wish it were true.
0:23.3	Could we get them to hope, to wish, to at least entertain the possibility that there was something
0:28.3	of value that they had previously rejected? Heart of Vines is a course and book that has been
0:34.3	crafted as a path for young women to begin to untangle the vines wound
0:38.5	around their hearts and move toward a place of freedom and purpose. Learn more about heart
0:44.0	of vines at walking with purpose.com. Girlfriends, episode number 462, going further with God's
0:53.3	Word with Curtis Mitch. Hello and welcome to girlfriends.
1:05.3	I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you. Know you're worth as a woman so you can find
1:11.0	peace, balance, and joy in daily living. This week we have special guest, Curtis Mitch, who is
1:15.4	joining us to talk about going further with God's Word, with a new edition of the Bible that is
1:20.1	newly available. You're going to want to hear all about it. Let's get started. Hey, girlfriend, how is your lent? That's the question we Catholics like to ask each other this time of year.
1:37.4	Protestants do. I've got some Protestant friends, and we've asked each other that question as well.
1:41.3	How is your lent going? We're one weekend, more or less, and I hope it is going
1:46.8	the way that you had planned, or I hope you are tweaking your plan in the way that God intends you to.
1:52.3	I hope it is as painful and sacrificial as God wants it to be in your life. I hope that you are
1:59.2	making time to connect with God, to pray, to fast,
2:03.0	and to give alms, those three tenets of Lent that we talked about a few episodes back.
2:08.0	So important that we just keep those basics in mind because sometimes it can feel overwhelming.
2:12.6	It feels like everywhere you turn, there's a new program, there's another thing you can sign up
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