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.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSWelcome    7What materials will you use?    8How will you use these materials?    8Preface    11Lesson One (Introduction and Colossians 1:1–2:5)    13Lesson Two (Colossians 2:6–4:18)    25Lesson Three (Introduction and Ephesians 1:1-23)    39Lesson Four (Ephesians 2:1–4:16)    49Lesson Five (Ephesians 4:17–6:24)    61Praying with Your Group    72Reflecting on Scripture    74