Catholic Bible Sunday: Taking off on Twitter

(Vatican Radio) In the UK, a just-released survey shows that more than half of churchgoing Catholics do NOT read the Bible week-by-week outside of a Church setting. So, how can the Church encourage more Catholics to pray with, know and use their Bible each day? That's one of the key aims behind Catholic Bible Sunday which is held on the Second Sunday of Advent each year by the Catholic Bishops' conference in England and Wales. In support of this aim, the Bishops have become active Twitter users in the hope that this social networking tool will help encourage the faithful to read the Bible and the Second Vatican Council documents. To find out more, Vatican Radio's Susy Hodges spoke to Father Adrian Graffy, Chair of the Church's National Scripture Working Group.

Listen to the extended interview with Father Graffy:

Father Graffy says during this Year of Faith we are "rediscovering the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and one of its key documents was Dei Verbum which I think fundamentally was saying the Scriptures are for all." He goes on to say that as part of this ongoing process "we need to rediscover, come to love and come to understand the Scriptures better."

Asked what are some of his favourite passages in the Bible, Father Graffy points to St. Mark's Gospel which he describes as one of the foundations of our faith "in it's presentation of Jesus" and in revealing "the essence of God's love."