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In 2019, Pope Francis established the Sunday of the Word of God to be celebrated each year on the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. As the Holy Father stated in his apostolic letter instituting the observance, “Devoting a specific Sunday of the liturgical year to the word of God can enable the Church to experience anew how the risen Lord opens up for us the treasury of his word and enables us to proclaim its unfathomable riches before the world” (Aperuit illus, no. 2).

On January 21, 2024, in observance of the Sunday of the Word of God, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, through a grant from the American Bible Society, will offer a “Sunday Seminar Series” of four videos about Sacred Scripture in the life of the Church. These videos, available in English and Spanish, will feature some of the bishops and biblical scholars and will be accompanied by discussion/reflection questions. The topics and presenters are:

The Eucharist in Scripture

English Presenter

Bishop François Beyrouti. Eparchy of Newton

Spanish Presenter

Bishop Silvio Báez, Auxiliary Bishop of Managua

Synodality and the Bible

English Presenter

Bishop Juan Miguel Betancourt. Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford

Spanish Presenter

Bishop Juan Miguel Betancourt. Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford

The Psalms and Prayer

English Presenter

Dr. Andrew Davis, Boston College

Spanish Presenter

Dr. Maria Barga, University of Saint Mary of the Lake

The Gospel and Letters of John

Dr. Sherri Brown, Creighton University

English Presenter

Dr. Hugo Mendez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Spanish Presenter

The videos will be made available on January 19, 2024 at: https://catholic.bible/sunday-of-the-word-of-god/

Thank you for giving this invitation your consideration—and for helping spread the word about video series. For more information, please contact Mary Elizabeth Sperry, msperry@usccb.org.