Living the Word Catholic Women's Bible Large Print Hardcover - 9781646801251

The Living the Word Catholic Women's Bible is a large-print hardcover Catholic study Bible in the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition (RSV2CE). It includes nearly 400 pages of features written for women by more than forty women contributors. These include profiles of women in the Bible, reflective essays, journaling questions, and quotations from saints and holy women, alongside lightly lined margins for journaling, drawing, and notetaking. It is designed for Catholic women who want to read Scripture daily and reflect on it in writing, on their own or with other women in a Bible study group.

The contributors are scholars, teachers, religious sisters, authors, ministers, and speakers, among them Leah Darrow, Sarah Christmyer, Johnnette Benkovic Williams, and Sr. Maria Kim-Ngân Bùi. Throughout the text are fifty Women of the Word profiles and ninety-seven "Living in the Light of Faith" essays. "Take It to Heart" questions invite reflection and journaling. Quotations come from women such as Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Joan of Arc, Thérèse of Lisieux, Josephine Bakhita, Thea Bowman, and Dorothy Day. Each book of the Bible opens with an introduction covering its overview, outline, historical context, and key themes. Cross-references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church connect Scripture with Catholic teaching.

Use & care: For daily Scripture reading, prayer journaling, and women's Bible study groups. Keep the dust cover on when carrying the Bible to protect the cloth hardcover, test a new pen in a back margin before journaling, and store it away from heat and direct sunlight.