From Prison to Torreciudad

Book written by "Fernando".

Fernando is a guy who spent 10 years in jail (the reason for that is not given in the book), but while in jail he experienced a conversion thanks to the help of a priest and his close union to the Virgin Mary. At some point he promised her that, if he was released during that year, he would go on a walking pilgrimage to her shrine in the North of Spain. After a short while he changed slightly his promise... he would go for such a pilgrimage whenever he was released, even if it wasn't that year itself.

This book is the story of that pilgrimage.

Some remarkable things about Fernando and his trip:

1. His love for Our Lady. It sounds simple, but walking 700 km in less than a month, without a single day break is very tough. He did for love of Mother Mary, to thank her and to ask her for a new job.

2. His daring and boldness to help people, by speaking to them and giving them advice, as well as doing things for others when required... for instance, he saw a forest fire going on and he approached to see if he could give a hand in dousing the fire... it wasn't easy stuff.

Verbum Domini part 1 section 3

The Interpretation of Sacred Scripture in the Church

• Without faith there is no key to throw open the Sacred text... It is impossible for anyone to attain knowledge of that truth unless he fist has infuse faith in Christ, which is the lamp, the gate and the foundation of all Scripture.

• We can never read Scripture on our own. We come up against too many closed doors and we slip too easily into error. It was written by the People of God for the People of God ... Only in this communion can we truly enter as a 'we' into the heart of the truth God wants to convey to us.

• Access to a proper understanding of bibcal texts is only granted to the person who has an affinity with what the text is saying on the basis of life experience

• "the study of the sacred page should be the very soul of theology"

• The history of salvation is not mythology, but a yrue history, and it should thus be studied with the methods of seious historical research.

• An attitude of respect, esteem, and love for the Jewish people is the onlyn truly Christian attitude in the present situation, which is a mysterious part of God's wholly positive plan.


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Verbum Domini part 1 section 2

Our response to the God who speaks

• We were created in the word and we live in the word; we cannot understand ourselves unless we are open to this dialogue.

• In this dialogue with God we come to understand ourselves and we discover an answer to our heart's deepest questions

• The Book of Psalms, where God gives us words to speak to him

• Man's sin is essentially disobedience and refusal to hear

• Our apostolic and pastoral work can never be effective unless we learn from Mary how to be shaped by the working of God within us.

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