2022-12-13

2022-12-13

Just as oral preaching spreads the Gospel so does preaching in its written or imprinted form. It multiplies it; its reach is all-pervasive. God himself gave us his Word preached orally and he gave it to us in seventy-two books of the Scripture. The Church in every age has worked in the same way: Popes, bishops, priests speak and write (UPS III, 124).