Day 14: The Eternal Word of God (101-108)

Prayer by Fr. Mike: “Father in Heaven, we thank you so much. Thank you for loving us to a point where you want to reveal yourself to us. Thank you for loving us in such a way that you've given us your Word, your only beloved Son, your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Your Word made Flesh and how Jesus Christ has revealed you, fully, to humanity. And how your Holy Spirit has continued to operate. How your Holy Spirit has continued to move in the people of God. How the Holy Spirit has continued to guide us. We ask you to, please, send that same Holy Spirit to renew in our hearts a love of your Word, to renew our hearts and understanding and desire for your Word, and to enlighten our minds so that we can understand you and understand your Word all so that we can follow you more closely. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.”

Scripture References & Reflections

- compiled by Andrew Adamany


Bible Translation - RSVCE

CCC 102 "Through all the words of Sacred Scripture, God speaks only one single Word, his one Utterance in whom he expresses himself completely:"


Hebrews 1:1-3 

"In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high"


You recall that one and the same Word of God extends throughout Scripture, that it is one and the same Utterance that resounds in the mouths of all the sacred writers, since he who was in the beginning God with God has no need of separate syllables; for he is not subject to time."


John 1:1

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."


2 Peter 3:8

"But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."



CCC 103 "For this reason, the Church has always venerated the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord's Body. She never ceases to present to the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God's Word and Christ's Body."


John 1:14

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth"


John 6:32–35, 51

"my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Lord, give us this bread always.” 

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst…

and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.”


Matthew 26:26 

"Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”


Acts 2:42 

"And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers."


CCC 104 "In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human word, "but as what it really is, the word of God". "In the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them."


CCC 105 "God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit."


2 Timothy 3:16–17

"All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work."


"For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself."


John 20:30–31 

"Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name."


2 Peter 3:15–16

"And count the forbearance of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures."


2 Peter 1:19–21

"And we have the prophetic word made more sure. You will do well to pay attention to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God."


Titus 1:7–9

"For a bishop, as God’s steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, upright, holy, and self-controlled; he must hold firm to the sure word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to confute those who contradict it.


CCC 107 "The inspired books teach the truth. "Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures."


Acts 17:10–12

"and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see if these things were so. Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men."


CCC 108 "Still, the Christian faith is not a "religion of the book." Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, a word which is "not a written and mute word, but the Word which is incarnate and living".If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, "open [our] minds to understand the Scriptures."


Hebrews 4:12–13

"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And before him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do."


Luke 24:32

"They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?”


Luke 24:45–48

"Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things."


1 Thessalonians 2:13

"And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers."