For many of us, reading the Bible is itself a struggle. For some, the word “Bible” evokes feelings of warmth, stability, authority, and wisdom. But for many Catholics today, it instead evokes fear, because it seems to be Israel’s story—mysterious, chronologically confusing, and impenetrable to modern readers. How tragic this is, since Scripture is a letter written by Our Heavenly Father to His children for the purpose of revealing Himself to them. Those who pick up the