2 GOD : to know Him more, to be in contact with After Jesus there will be no more word, we do

Him, to praise Him. For this reason, throughout
GOD CREATED MAN
- God created everything: the universe, the sun,
the planets, the earth and everything in it.
God made: the water, the plants, the animals,
the air... and he made everything BEAUTIFUL. He
created all this to give it to someone: Man.
- MAN is the most important of all that God has
created.
Because? Because he made it in his IMAGE AND
LIKENESS , that is, similar to God himself.
- He gave man gifts that no other being in creation
has: he gave him intelligence to think, he gave
him a will to do things and he gave him a SOUL
so that he could enjoy Him for all eternity, that is ,
forever, when his body is gone.
- Have you thought about how much God loves us
to have made us like this?
not have to wait for another revelation from God.
history men have worshiped, temples, prayed, All those new religions or sects that say that God
and sacrificed to God. has told their leaders how things should be, are
- This is why it is said that man is by nature wrong and try to deceive us.
RELIGIOUS, that he seeks God, because he
knows that only in God will he find truth and
happiness.
- A great saint called Saint Augustine said: "You
have made me for yourself and my heart will be
restless until it rests in You."
GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO
MAN
- God throughout history revealed himself to man.
What does this mean? It means that he chose
certain special men called PROPHETS to know
him, listen to him and know his will, to tell it to
other men.
- The catechism teaches us that:
" God used chosen men, who used all their
talents to write down everything and only what - Why did God reveal things to men? Because he
God wanted." loves us.
- Why did God reveal things to men?
To tell us what we have to do to save
ourselves, to get to heaven.

THE BIBLE IS THE

- At first man in PARADISE could be with God,
talk to Him, but remember that the first men Adam
and Eve sinned and then were expelled from
Paradise and lost that direct relationship with God.
However, God loved us so much that he did
not abandon us, but later sent his son Jesus
Christ to save us.
3 God revealed himself, that is, made himself
MAN IS A BEING
RELIGIOUS
- Man, in different ways, HAS ALWAYS SEEKED
- God told the Prophets to announce that a “
Savior” would come to the world.
4 and its strength. In the Bible, God goes out to
- The most perfect, most complete way in which
known to men was through his SON JESUS
CHRIST. Jesus told us with his life, with his
example and with his words EVERYTHING that
God wanted to tell us.
- Look at this, which is very important:
GOD'S WORD
- God wanted everything he had revealed to be
preserved and transmitted to all generations of
men. Men worried about writing what God told
them through the prophets and later through
Christ himself.
This is how A SACRED BOOK was formed:
THE BIBLE.
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- The Bible is also called HOLY SCRIPTURE and
is the word of God. Yes, it is God himself who is
the author of this book .
- In the Bible, the Church finds its nourishment
meet his children to talk with them.
HOW IS THE BIBLE FORMED ?
- The book of the Bible, or the Holy Scripture, is
divided into two large parts:
The Old Testament, which is 46 books.
 The New Testament is 27 books. had books removed and then you cannot receive
the complete message that God wanted to give us
to know Him.
Look in the Bible Index to see if the 7 books
are included: Tobias, Judith I and Judith II,
Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch.
Another simpler way to make sure that the
Bible is complete and that it is a CATHOLIC
BIBLE is to check that the first pages have a
round seal of the Archbishop.

YOU MUST READ THE

1) THE OLD TESTAMENT.
This tells us: what the creation of the world
was like, everything that God told the
PROPHETS, the history of the people of Israel
(which is the people that God chose and from
where Jesus would later be born).
The main purpose of all these writings was
to prepare men for the coming of Christ .
2) THE NEW TESTAMENT :
This begins when Jesus is born and is formed
as follows:
a) THE GOSPELS --- There are 4: that of
Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, Saint Luke and Saint
John.
The gospels are the most important part of
the Bible, the best, the most precious because
they tell us how Jesus was born, everything he did
during his life, everything he told us and how he
BIBLE !
- The Church recommends that all Catholics read
the Bible, the word of God, every day, because
this reading will be food for our soul, it will help us
know what God wants to tell us and what Jesus
Christ taught us.
PURPOSE OF THE MONTH
: - You believe that God has created you and loves
- This month, I will do whatever it takes to follow a you... but sometimes you feel far away, you don't
BIBLE for our home, I will put it in a place where know what he wants to tell you. If you want to
the whole family can take it and I will make it a listen to God and his word, you can know the
habit to read a little piece of it every day. I will start word of God, what He wants to tell you, by
by reading the Gospels. reading the sacred book that is THE BIBLE.
1 In this booklet we will talk to you about the
Bible .

LET'S KNOW
died and was resurrected.
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b) THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES -- They
tell us everything the apostles experienced after
Jesus went to heaven and all the efforts and
OUR FAITH
CATHOLIC
persecutions they went through to be able to start
the Church.
c) THE EPISTLES --- They are the letters
written by Saint Paul, Saint Peter (first Pope),
Saint James and Saint John. (34)
d) THE APOCALYPSE --- It is the book that
tells us the prophecies, what will happen until the The Bible
world ends.

- The true Bible has a total of 73 books. Be very

careful when you find or are offered a Bible with
66 books because it is a Protestant Bible that has