Letters from Prison, Part One

Vincent M. Smiles is professor emeritus of theology at Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary, Collegeville, Minnesota. He is the author of The Bible and Science, and First Thessalonians, Philippians, Second Thessalonians, Colossians, Ephesians, and Letters from Prison, Part One and Part Two from the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series published by Liturgical Press.Terence J. Keegan, OP, is professor of theology at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. He is the author of First and Second Timothy, Titus, Philemon from the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series published by Liturgical Press.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSWelcome    7What materials will you use?    8How will you use these materials?    8Preface    11Lesson One (Introduction and Philippians 1:1-26)    13Lesson Two (Philippians 1:27–3:1)    23Lesson Three (Philippians 3:2–4:23)    35Lesson Four (Introduction and Philemon)    45Praying with Your Group    56Reflecting on Scripture    58