What Are Your Favorites?
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Hebrews.
Psalms and All of St. Pauls letters.
Psalms. Psalm 90 if I had to pick one.
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Genesis and James, maybe. I don’t have one favorite Gospel over the others.
That’s a tough one. Like Pinky, I exclude the Gospels from my opinion. Hebrews and Revelation in the NT and the Big Three OT prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, I guess. It’s like trying to pick a favorite child, really.
Judith in the OT and John in the NT.
“All Scripture is inspired of God and is useful for teaching — for reproof, correction, and training in holiness so that the man of God may be fully competent and equipped for every good work” (2 Tm 3:16-17).
Yes. It’s All Good! Picking favorites is hard..I treasure the book of Wisdom, Ecclesiastes too.
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Luke (with James a close second), and Genesis.
“Favorite” is a hard call, but I’ll put in a good word for Ecclesiastes. I’m often tempted to second-guess decisions I made decades ago — I don’t mean mourning my sins, which is fitting, but stupid things like wondering how my life would have been different if I had majored in engineering instead of science. Ecclesiastes makes it clear that this Valley of Tears would still have been a Valley of Tears even with a better-paying job.
Job, because it reminds me of my place. In the New Testament, probably James. I can’t say why.
I love the Haydock Bible, but they use a facsimile, which I find to be a tough read. I doubt they had the ability to retype set it though. It would have raised the cost of the edition astronomically.
James is like a good store manager. “All right, people, you know the job; now let’s get to work. And remember to smile. You’re representing the company.” I need that regularly.
The birth narrative of St. Luke’s Gospel.