"The Lectionary would, for example, take the faithful through St. Matthew chapter 3, verses 1-6 on one Sunday, skip verses 7-11, and continue on the next Sunday with verses 12-20. This example is fabricated for the purposes of illustration, but you get the point: certain verses, sometimes entire sections of verses in fact, were just simply missing from the Lectionary"
This is true! Look at the daily readings posted on this webpage and then take note of the verses that are skipped. Then read those skipped verses and you can see the modernist, Sodomite bent of the people who decided to skip the verses.
I've noticed that anything that strikes of judgement, morality, discipline, anything the liberals don't like is routinely skipped.
Neo-Catholic apologists like Scott Hahn claim that you can claim to your Protestant friends that you get all the Bible in the 3 year cycle. This is not true.
We need to jump into the Daily reading thread and expose this.
Not only is this Novus Ordo "mess" on shaky ground...but the reading that go with it skip the meat and potatoes.
"one very well-meaning priest recently objected to this study of mine, offering the objection that the “current rubrics” do allow for the priest to substitute other readings for the prescribed Sunday readings, that is, “where there is pastoral need.” His point was that many priests can (and do?) substitute the weaker Sunday readings with more “Catholic” readings that come from the weekday Masses. To this I say: how sad."
How sad indeed. I too am sad at the devastating corruptions foisted on the faithful in the wake of Vatican 2. It particularly hurts when I witness friends doggedly persist "in obedience to the dictates of Vatican 2" and then lament when their children have completely abandoned the Faith. Of course, it only makes me more grateful that our family were given the grace to return to the traditional Catholic Faith some years ago.