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To: Claud

I don't know, considering many priests at the time hadn't even seen a Bible.


26 posted on 01/24/2007 12:46:32 PM PST by Gamecock (Ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda secundum verbum Dei)
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To: Gamecock
I don't know, considering many priests at the time hadn't even seen a Bible.

That's a newsflash to me... It was my understanding that there was one in every parish, chained to the pulpit (not to prevent the laity from reading it, as if often claimed, but rather to prevent theft, as a hand-copied Bible would cost about a year's worth of the average working man's wages)

27 posted on 01/24/2007 12:53:34 PM PST by GCC Catholic
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I don't know, considering many priests at the time hadn't even seen a Bible.

I'm not so sure about that...something for me to research. Probably most of them had access to at least the NT. Anyway, if it were true it'd be a technicality. Even if a priest didn't have a "Bible" the way we understand it today, he would have said daily Mass and the Divine Office from liturgical books that were loaded with all the most important passages. The reading cycle was sorta different then, but if you attend daily Mass nowadays, for 3 years straight I think it is, you hear the entire Bible cover to cover.

41 posted on 01/24/2007 1:57:25 PM PST by Claud
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I don't know, considering many priests at the time hadn't even seen a Bible.

And when they did see the Bible, it was chained to the altar so no one could get near it other than the anointed few.

43 posted on 01/24/2007 2:06:54 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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