Cheryl Nguyen Cheryl Nguyen is a consecrated person with three vows of poverty, chasity, and obedience. She has been a research and development engineer working in the media industry. She began working with Fr. Robert Faricy SJ in 2002 giving retreats, speaking at Marian and Charismatic conferences, and praying for healing at healing Masses in the United States, Canada, and the Philippines. In addition, Cheryl does counseling and gives spiritual direction. She lives in Northern California.	Fr. Robert Faricy, S.J. Robert Faricy, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and theologian who is an Emeritus Professor of Spirituality lives at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is an Emeritus Professor of Spirituality of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Father Faricy has written over thirty books, most translated into several languages, and several hundred articles. He frequently ministers in Italy, the United States, Mexico, Ireland, and other countries, speaking at conferences and conventions and giving talks and retreats. Brief biographies can be found in: Who's Who in the World; in Contemporary Authors; in The Dictionary of Pentecostalism, and in other reference works.

Some would hold that the spiritual interpretation of Scripture is too old fashioned for today, not scientific enough. This even though the spiritual sense of Scripture was common in medieval times, and practiced right down through the seventeenth century both in Catholicism and in Protestantism. However, today, the use of the spiritual sense of scripture, not only in the New Testament itself but in personal prayer, in preaching and in writing, and in worship in all the Christian churches, and the belief that the Bible speaks to each Christian in and about that person’s own life situation, are established firmly in the practice of the Christian churches. The focus of the spiritual interpretation of Bible passages is this: the double inspiration of the Bible. All Christian churches, as far as I know, hold this. That the Bible is the word of God, that God is the primary author of the Bible, both testaments, and the human writers wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And, furthermore, that each Christian is, or at least can be, inspired by the Holy Spirit when reading or hearing Scripture to find a spiritual meaning in what is read or heard. Scripture is God's inspired work, and the Spirit inspires those who read it in faith, inspires them to find the meaning, the interpretation, that God wants them to have. The same Holy Spirit who inspired scripture inspires us; He inspires us to read or listen, and to understand. The Holy Spirit is the inner source of interpretation. God speaks to us through Scripture.

God speaks to us through Scripture