I remember when I first encountered a car with images on the gauges and switches instead of words.
As do I!!! And that is precisely the point. Images convey a message to the illiterate, deaf or those not familiar with the language of a particular country. Voice transmits a message to the blind. From the time of Christ's death until Guttenberg produced the first bible in 1450, most people relied upon the oral and/or visual transmission of the salvation message. They did not have bibles because they were too costly. Today, we are overwhelmed with bibles from so many different sources that we are confronted with a new risk, that of reading one that is not faithful to the original.
God bless you, Elsie, on stepping back and opening your mind and heart to history and reality. And that brings us back to the original message given by Pope Francis.
The Catholic faith is not centered simply on a book -- the Bible -- but on Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh, Pope Francis said.