The Slovene Church is celebrating 2007 as “Year of Holy Scripture”. The motto of the event is “We announce to you the word of life” (1 Jn 1:1). And linked to this theme, the bishops have published a pastoral letter for Lent, which was read out in all parishes on Sunday 11 and 18 February. “We need – explains the general secretary of the Slovene Bishops’ Conference, Fr. Andrej Saje – to read and know this inspired book, study it and, in the light of this Word, pray and dialogue with God. The Bible speaks to us of God, of his love for man, of his care for each one of us. So in this way the Word of God shall become for us too a word of true life”. According to the bishops, “through Holy Scripture, God continues today to reveal himself. Genuine knowledge of God is the greatest value of all”. The bishops draw attention to the fact that “a limited knowledge of the history of salvation and of Holy Scripture may, on the contrary, give rise to a growth of discord and, consequently, of deviations from the true faith in our contemporary culture. The forms of private revelation do not acquire universal value and add nothing to the revelation of Holy Scripture confirmed by the doctrine of the Church”.
