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And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost.
John 6:12
Fragmenda is fragmenta, fragments, and colligenda, things that are to be gathered.
Gather the fragments of your day unto God through His Word and His Church.
Sources
Everything in Fragmenda is copied from the sources below:
Fragmenda itself is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0.
Corrections
Every place a source was not directly copied:
- [1: Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible] Proverbs 12: Gutenberg's transcription numbers two verses "12" in a row. A second printing, drbo.org, shows this is a copying slip and not a feature of the translation: the first "12" is really the rest of verse 11. We join it there and let the next paragraph keep the number 12.
- [1: Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible] Psalms 9 and 113: the printed verse numbers restart partway through each chapter. We renumber them in one running sequence, so every verse has its own address.
- [3: Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary] Each chapter in this transcription opens its commentary with a bold "Notes & Commentary:" line, dividing it from the Bible text printed above. That line is the transcriber's, not Haydock's, so we drop it.
- [4: Catechism of St Pius X] Nine notes in brackets, citing later popes and church law, are not the author's own words. They stay, because a reader is better served knowing the modern discipline, and are marked as not his.
- [5: Baltimore Catechism #4] One note from the book's own transcriber follows question 257, in braces. It explains that this reprint eased the original 1891 fasting rule. The note stays, so the text is never read as Kinkead's own.
Data
Fragmenda parses every source into JSON and renders every page from those files. The parsed JSON is shared here, along with a single-page HTML rendering of the texts.
| Texts | JSON | HTML |
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| Douay-Rheims Challoner | JSON 7.5 MB | HTML 8.1 MB |
| Clementine Vulgate | JSON 6.7 MB | HTML 7.2 MB |
| Haydock Commentary | JSON 12.1 MB | HTML 12.2 MB |
| Catechism of St Pius X | JSON 346 KB | HTML 512 KB |
| Baltimore #4 | JSON 862 KB | HTML 938 KB |
| Roman Catechism | JSON 1.2 MB | HTML 1.2 MB |
Amen
Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.
John 17:17
"Every wound of the soul has its medicine in the Scriptures." (St. Augustine, Psalm xxxvi.)
Haydock Commentary, Wisdom 16:12
Saint Jerome recalls that we can never read Scripture simply on our own. We come up against too many closed doors and we slip too easily into error. The Bible was written by the People of God for the People of God, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Only in this communion with the People of God can we truly enter as a “we” into the heart of the truth that God himself wishes to convey to us. Jerome, for whom “ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ”, states that the ecclesial dimension of biblical interpretation is not a requirement imposed from without: the Book is the very voice of the pilgrim People of God, and only within the faith of this People are we, so to speak, attuned to understand sacred Scripture. An authentic interpretation of the Bible must always be in harmony with the faith of the Catholic Church.
Pope Benedict XVI, Verbum Domini
The Church has always venerated the divine Scriptures just as she venerates the body of the Lord, since, especially in the sacred liturgy, she unceasingly receives and offers to the faithful the bread of life from the table both of God's word and of Christ's body. She has always maintained them, and continues to do so, together with sacred tradition, as the supreme rule of faith, since, as inspired by God and committed once and for all to writing, they impart the word of God Himself without change, and make the voice of the Holy Spirit resound in the words of the prophets and Apostles. Therefore, like the Christian religion itself, all the preaching of the Church must be nourished and regulated by Sacred Scripture. For in the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven meets His children with great love and speaks with them; and the force and power in the word of God is so great that it stands as the support and energy of the Church, the strength of faith for her sons, the food of the soul, the pure and everlasting source of spiritual life. Consequently these words are perfectly applicable to Sacred Scripture: "For the word of God is living and active" (Heb. 4:12) and "it has power to build you up and give you your heritage among all those who are sanctified" (Acts 20:32; see 1 Thess. 2:13).
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Therefore, all the clergy must hold fast to the Sacred Scriptures through diligent sacred reading and careful study, especially the priests of Christ and others, such as deacons and catechists who are legitimately active in the ministry of the word. This is to be done so that none of them will become "an empty preacher of the word of God outwardly, who is not a listener to it inwardly" since they must share the abundant wealth of the divine word with the faithful committed to them, especially in the sacred liturgy. The sacred synod also earnestly and especially urges all the Christian faithful, especially Religious, to learn by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures the "excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ" (Phil. 3:8). "For ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ." Therefore, they should gladly put themselves in touch with the sacred text itself, whether it be through the liturgy, rich in the divine word, or through devotional reading, or through instructions suitable for the purpose and other aids which, in our time, with approval and active support of the shepherds of the Church, are commendably spread everywhere. And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together; for "we speak to Him when we pray; we hear Him when we read the divine saying."
Vatican II, Dei Verbum