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Rabat (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocese of Rabat has distributed a series of informational sketches on the Bible, entitled “The Year of St. Paul – Bible Studies on the First Letter to the Thessalonians and the First Letter to the Corinthians.” They are outlines for organizing 8 group encounters over the course of the Year of St. Paul, dedicated to study and reflection on these two Letters of the Apostle. The outlines were prepared by the Diocese of Oran (Algeria) and sent out to groups of students living in Magreb, however with the proper adaptations it can also be used for groups of adults in catechetical and biblical formation.
Each outline contains five parts: reflecting on our life (beginning with reality, experience); listen to the Word of God; illumine our life with the experience of faith transmitted by the Bible; pray (every encounter calls for a certain amount of time of prayer to reflect on all that has been said and discovered by the participants); move on from prayer to life, from reflection to action. As “Ensemble,” the news source of the Diocese of Rabat says, the goal of the editors of the outlines was to spread greater awareness of Saint Paul in this Jubilee Year of the 2,000th anniversary of his birth and offer an opportunity for participants to enter into deeper contact with the Word of God. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 5/12/2008)
