The Psalms · 5 min read
Psalm numbering: Vulgate and Hebrew
Why most psalms carry two numbers, a converter, and a chart of all 150.
Guides
Guides to the Catholic Bible
Short, plain answers to the questions people ask before they open a Catholic Bible, with every number counted from the text Bless ships.
The canon · 2 min read
The Catholic Bible by the numbers
73 books, 1,334 chapters, 35,804 verses, book by book, and why other Bibles count differently.
The canon · 6 min read
The deuterocanonical books
Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees and the Greek parts of Esther and Daniel.
Reading · 3 min read
Where to start reading the Catholic Bible
Genesis, Mark or John: three good beginnings, and how to read in order at your own pace.
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The 73 books
Every book of the Catholic Bible, with Bp. Challoner’s summaries of 1,306 of its 1,334 chapters.
Translation
The CPDV
The Catholic Public Domain Version, the translation on every page of this site.
Translation
The Clementine Vulgate
The Latin Bible of 1592 that the CPDV and the Douay-Rheims were translated from.
The Church’s year
Liturgical calendar
Seasons, colors, feasts and Mass reading citations, day by day.
How these guides are made
The guides are written by Funn Apps, the makers of Bless. Every count in them is printed from the same database the app ships, and all Scripture in them is quoted from the CPDV. Where scholars disagree, the guides say so rather than pick a side.
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