Did I achieve the courage of St. Mary Magdalene, her constancy and devotion when she went to anoint the body of the Lord Jesus Christ in the tomb (John 20:1)? Do I hear the resurrected Savior calling me by name, as He called her, and do I call out "Master" in her simplicity and complete selflessness (John 20:16)?

By reading the Holy Scriptures in this way—with obedience, as members of the Holy Church, by finding the Lord Jesus Christ everywhere in them, by perceiving everything as part of our own lives—we will be able to feel the versatility and depth of the Holy Bible to some extent. Yet we will never leave the feeling that we have only just begun to study the Holy Bible. We are like a man who sails out in a small boat into the boundless ocean.

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" (Psalm 118:105).