Discover Catholic Bible Studies Near You
Connect with your parish community through the timeless wisdom of Sacred Scripture. Find a study, sign up, and grow in faith together.
How It Works
Joining a Catholic Bible study has never been easier. Three simple steps to deepen your faith.
Step One
Find a Study
Search by ZIP code to discover Catholic Bible studies happening in your community right now.
Step Two
Sign Up
Register directly through the parish sign-up form. No account needed. Just choose a study that fits your schedule and interests.
Step Three
Connect & Grow
Show up, open Scripture, and let the Holy Spirit work. Build lasting friendships with fellow parishioners who share your love of God's Word.
Find a Catholic Bible Study Near You
Enter your ZIP code to find parishes near you.
You don't need to be Catholic to come. These studies welcome Christians of every denomination, and anyone of another faith exploring a relationship with God through the Church that Jesus established.
Showing the parishes closest to you. Each listing says who its study is open to.
Rooted in Scripture. Grounded in Community.
Catholic Bible Study exists to make parish Scripture studies easy to find, whether you are Catholic, a Christian of another denomination, or simply drawn to read the Bible in company. We believe that encountering God's Word together transforms hearts, strengthens parishes, and deepens faith.
Whether you're a seasoned Bible scholar or you've never opened a concordance, there's a place for you at the table.
What starts to make sense
The Old Testament stops being the part you skip.
The Passover lamb. The bronze serpent lifted in the desert. Isaac carrying the wood up the hill himself. Someone shows you once what they were pointing at, and they stop being strange old stories. They turn out to be the same story, and you are standing inside it.
Typology. Dei Verbum 16, following Saint Augustine: “the New Testament hidden in the Old and the Old made manifest in the New.”
A verse you know by heart opens up again.
One passage, four honest readings: what it plainly says, what it reveals about Christ, what it asks of you this week, and where it's pointing at the end. You stop having to work out which one is the real meaning. It was never only one.
The four senses of Scripture: literal, allegorical, moral, anagogical. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 115–119.
You can't fall behind.
Nobody is graded and nobody gets called on. You read slowly, stay with a single line, and leave with something to carry rather than something to catch up on. The quiet is part of it, not a gap in the evening.
Lectio divina, in Saint Benedict's Rule since the sixth century.
None of this is new. It is how the Church has read Scripture since the Fathers, and it is what you'll find in a parish study down the road from you.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
— John 3:16
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Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus, 1601. The National Gallery, London. · Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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