Biblical Year of the Pauline Family 2020 - 2021 - 27 June 2021 (S11E32b)(SS102fm programme excerpt)

On this weeks programme we are joined by Fr Alex Alantham from the Society of St Paul to share with us about the Pauline Family founded by Bl James Albeirone and the special biblical year which the Pauline family is celebrating in 2020/2021The Biblical Year of the Pauline Family has the theme “That the Word of the Lord may speed on,”  Announcing the Pauline Biblical Year in January 2020, the Major Superiors of the Pauline Family in Rome said that the common objective of the year-long celebration of the Biblical year is “To renew ourselves through familiarity, study and prayerful reading of the Sacred Scriptures, in order to live the Word of God so that it reaches everyone, especially those on the existential and thought peripheries.” The Biblical Year 2020-2021 is the third in the history of the Pauline Family. The first was called by Blessed James Alberione in 1960-1961 to celebrate the 1900th anniversary of the arrival of St. Paul in Rome. The second was celebrated in 1961-1962, thirty years after the one proposed by the Founder, with the aim of re-launching the meaning of the Pauline family's service to the Word of God. The current Biblical Year takes place on the occasion of the special commemorations of the birth in heaven of two great lovers of the Word: 1600 year of the death of Saint Jerome (30 Sept 420) and 50th year of the death of Blessed JamesAlberione (26 November 1971). The third Pauline Year will conclude on 26 November 2021, on the 50th death anniversary of the founder Blessed James Alberione.“We are in the Biblical year. If we want the sacred text to enter all families and be loved and understood, many means can be used, but the first means is to read, mediate, and love the Bible ourselves. Those who love the Bible later spread it. Anyone who loves reading the Bible becomes enlightened, useful to people." Blessed James Alberione“Walking with the Church, we renew ourselves through familiarity, study and prayerful reading of the Sacred Scriptures, in order to live the Word of God so that it reaches everyone, especially those on the existential and thought peripheries”.You can find out more about the Biblical year of the Pauline Family HERE or HERE.Text us at +353 874668950 or email at [email protected]