Once per year during Advent, we are called upon to consider the gift of the Holy Scriptures, the Word of God.  God has graciously revealed Himself to us in the pages of the Bible.  Thus, the reading of Holy Scripture is a sacrament for in them Christ gives Himself to us.  They are not easy to understand, but we, like the patriarch Joseph, are called upon to wrestle with scripture, to conform our precepts to the precept that we find there, and to study them so that we may apprehend God more fully.  In doing so in the company of our fellow believers in the Church throughout time, we find…