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Maybe you didn't get the memo, there was no 'Mass' for the first centuries of Christianity. "Breaking the Bread" is the celebration of the Eucharist - what we call the "Mass". It's been going on since the very beginning of Christianity.

Roman Catholics call it the 'mass', Christians call it the Lord's Supper.

We do it in rememberance of Christ's death on the cross, we are not reenacting it in violation of Heb. 6:6

There were many false books competing with Christianity, but the local churches were able to filter them out. That is not the way Christian history relates how the Canon was formed. I don't know where you get your information, but a number of letters were read at the MASS that today are not part of what we call "Scripture". One example is the first letter of Clement of Rome to the Corinthians.

One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognising their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirect. The first ecclesiastical councils to classify the canonical books were both held in North Africa-at Hippo Regius in 393 and at Carthage in 397-but what these councils did was not to impose something new upon the Christian communities but to codify what was already the general practice of those communities. http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/ffbruce/ntdocrli/ntdocc03.htm

False churches accepted apocyrpha books in both the Old and New Testament.

False Churches later denied what was accepted by the Universal Church. What happened? Those cats from 1000 years later suddenly have a "revelation"?

Even Jerome did not accept the Old Testament Apocrypha as part of the Canon, viewing it as a secondary work, likewise with Athansisus.

The Apocrypha did not become 'offical' for the RCC until Trent.

Ever figure out what Jn.15:2 means? I'm sure you and your self-proclaimed infallibility will soon tell me...

No, I just figured you might actually get around to reading it.

But why should any Roman Catholic read what he doesn't believe.

Espically since when it is so much easier to have someone else do your thinking for you-like big Papa.