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57 What role does Sacred Scripture play in the Church? Sacred Scripture gives sustenance and life to the Church. It strengthens the faith of its sons and daughters and is their food and the source of their spiritual lives. It is the soul of theology and of preaching. The psalmist says: it is a “lamp for my steps, a light for my path” (Ps 119:105). For this reason the Church exhorts us to read Sacred Scripture frequently, because “ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ” (Saint Jerome) (Compendium of CCC, nn. 21-24). THE BIBLE 165