Today is the feast day of Saint Jerome and the one year anniversary...

... of Pope Benedict XVI's post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Verbum Domini (also available in PDF format from the Vatican site), on the "Word of God in the life and mission of the Church". If you've not read it, consider putting it on your list of "Papal Documents I Need to Read ASAP".

And if you are looking for an introduction and guide to the admittedly lengthy document, see my essay, "A Symphony of the Word".

"I interpret as I should, following the command of Christ: Search the Scriptures, and Seek and you shall find. Christ will not say to me what he said to the Jews: You erred, not knowing the Scriptures and not knowing the power of God. For if, as Paul says, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, and if the man who does not know Scripture does not know the power and wisdom of God, then ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ." — St. Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah (see longer quote as well as reference in Catechism of the Catholic Church, par. 133)