The gift that will last a lifetime.The perfect gift for your most important spiritual milestones, including First Communion and Confirmation. The NRSV HarperCollins Catholic Gift Bible will be a cherished lifelong companion. Beautifully designed for readability and compact enough so that you can take it with you everywhere, this inspiring edition will help you to better understand the Bible’s divine message—a most treasured keepsake for life’s most holy moments.Renowned for its beautiful balance of scholarship and readability, the NRSV faithfully serves the Church in personal spiritual formation and in the academy. The foremost Bible translation vetted by Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, and Jewish scholars invites you to deeply explore Scripture. This edition bears the imprimatur of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and includes the 73 books of the Roman Catholic Canon in an anglicized text.Features:The text of the New Revised Standard Version (Catholic Canon), vetted by an ecumenical pool of Christian academics and renowned for its beautiful balance of scholarship and readabilityImprimatur of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Canadian Conference of Catholic BishopsFull color presentation pages for dedication and recording of family historySixty-four pages explaining the Catholic rites of initiation and what it means to be a CatholicIntroductions to every book of the BibleSixteen pages of Bible mapsA detailed time line of world and Catholic historyA concordance for finding key versesSatin ribbon markerReadable two-column designAnglicized text