21 Sunday C / 250813 / BIBLE Sunday

As we bring the BIBLE into the Church by procession, we like to show everybody:
The BIBLE is a message for the CHURCH, she may go into the heart und brain and hands of all believers. And the CHURCH brings this message to the World as an offer as an invitation.

Some people, busy with the mystery of God, became and become convinced: they
have understood  whats going on in the mind of God; they got knowledge about the will of God; they know what God is doing! These people are so convinced: they started to write down their discovery. The message about God as the message of God. And the CHURCH has chosen 72 books as holy, as the right interpretation
of the will of God. And this interpretation-work should go on...

As you read the BIBLE, you may read book after book (starting with the Gospels,
then the Letters, then the Psalms, then the Prophets etc... and finally the Genesis) or you may read the 3 Readings of the following Sunday. Your reading is best as you keep in mind the question: what is the message for me/ for us?
If you didn't get any message, your reading is strange. If you like to study the Bible
that's something else; it means you like to find out: how the message  is constructed, translated and onderstood in earlier times.

The Bible is not a reality-report; this is the work of your eyes. But the Bible is a dream, where the reality may go. It's like the speech of Martin-Luther King:
"I have a dream". And the dream is on the way becoming true, changing the reality.

The reader of the Bible must be aware that he has not any more the eyes of the
writers, the composers. We today see things different. We have today not any more the natural eyes, we have x-ray-eyes, or many have special glasses, making  the world dark or changing the colours or the perspectives etc...
If the reader don't know with which kind of glasses he/she reads, there will be no real biblical understanding.
The biblical paradies is not a place to find 150'000 years ago as the homo sapiens came up. It's a dream to see God and Humans united as well man and wive are united. A dream we may never forget...