SUMMER BIBLE INSTITUTE

July 11-17, 2021

The long tradition of the Summer Bible Institute continues this year, but in a new and exciting way! The presentations will be a combination of a Sunday evening introductory Zoom session, eight 40-minute pre-recorded talks by each speaker, and a live on-line conclusion and discussion with each speaker at the end of the week.

Old Testament

Kathy McGovern

Reading the Old Testament Through the Lens of Suffering

Suffering is a common denominator in nearly every book in the Old Testament. Beginning with the loss of the Garden in Genesis, the Old Testament stories, histories, and writings all have a common thread of suffering. That makes sense, of course, since these are the stories of God’s people, and all people will suffer at some point in their lives. These presentations will consider the role that suffering plays in the salvation history story. Does suffering have a role in our lives, too?

Kathy McGovern is a long-time Scripture teacher in the Denver area. She taught in the Denver Catholic Biblical School for seventeen years and writes a weekly Scripture column, The Story and You, for parish bulletins around the country. She has Masters Degrees from Notre Dame (Liturgical Studies) and St. Thomas Seminary (Sacred Scripture). Because of several serious health problems in her own life, she likes to meditate on suffering in Scripture because they all had it so much worse than she does.

New Testament

A Journey through the Gospel of Matthew

Timothy Lowe

Matthew utilizes the Old Testament in his presentation of Christ more than any other gospel. He continues the major themes of the prophets (repentance, faithfulness and judgment) and presents the early Church with the challenge of being faithful to the commandments of God and what they can expect if they accept baptism and commit to his teaching. We will journey through the Gospel of Matthew with an intense focus on the first seven chapters as he develops his major themes and follow these through to the end of his book and then discover their timelessness for our own lives twenty centuries later, a largely incomprehensible but nonetheless true experience of sacred Scripture.

Timothy Lowe is a retired priest from the Orthodox Church in America. He was previously rector at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem (University of Notre Dame); Adjunct Professor of Old Testament at Holy Apostles Seminary, Cromwell, CT; and currently president of the Orthodox Center for the Advancement of Biblical Studies. He grew up in Lincoln, NE, but his early travel to the Middle East led to an encounter with Eastern Orthodox Christianity and ultimate conversion.

Registration is required to receive the links to these programs. There is no set charge, but donations are accepted and appreciated!

Registration for the Summer Bible Institute may be made in one of the following ways:

Through the Oratory website.

OR

By email to oratorycenter@gmail.com with SBI in the subject line.

Please indicate OT, NT or Both whichever way you register.

If you have any questions, please contact the Center at the above email address.