Consult your Bible as often as your cellphone. The Pope urged people to give the Bible the same place in their daily life as cellphones.

Consult your Bible as often as your cellphone

Monday, March 6th, 2017

Consult your Bible as often as your cellphone.

The Pope urged crowds at St Peter’s Square to give the Bible the same place in their daily life as cellphones.

He asked them: “What would happen if we turned back when we forget it, if we opened it more times a day, if we read the message of God contained in the Bible the way we read messages on our cellphones?” Read more

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