For All The Saints , by Katherine Rabenstein Catholic Online , by Terry Matz Domestic Church , by Catherine Fournier Catholic Encyclopedia , by John B O'Connor Zenit. Org news story re patronage Lives of the Saints , by Father Alban Butler Open Directory Project links devoted to or with information about Saint Isidore Reading Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading. If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly.
All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection.
Reading the holy Scriptures confers two benefits. The conscientious reader will be more concerned to carry out what he has read than merely to acquire knowledge of it. In reading we aim at knowing, but we must put into practice what we have learned in our course of study. The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest. The man who is slow to grasp things but who really tries hard is rewarded, equally he who does not cultivate his God-given intellectual ability is condemned for despising his gifts and sinning by sloth.