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September 30: ST. JEROME: Translator of the Holy Bible
St. Jerome spent decades in a Bethlehem cave translating the entire Bible so ordinary people could finally read it themselves. Working from the original Hebrew rather than the easier Greek text, Jerome produced the Vulgate — the Latin Bible that shaped Catholic worship for over a thousand years. Sharp-tempered and imperfect, he still gave his whole life to a conviction he never let go of: that knowing Christ means knowing Scripture. "Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ." Today's challenge is just the start. Grab our free Family Pack — a saint calendar, activity pages, and...
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast where we know that every day is a feast day. It's September 30th, so join me for St. Jerome, translator of the Holy Bible. Deep inside a cave in Bethlehem just steps from the very spot where Jesus was born, an old scholar sat hunched over a stack of scrolls working away by candlelight.
He pondered each word one after another before he carefully marked the scroll in front of him. Jerome had been at this same enormous task for years, and he still had years of work ahead of him.
Nearly everyone he respected thought that he was making this harder than he needed to, and yet Jerome continued on. He believed that God's holy word deserved nothing less than all the painstaking, careful attention that he could give.
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