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To: Alex Murphy
Ours get read?

Your Bible gets read in snippets during your "services." Ours gets read completely during our liturgical cycle.

But I would not expect a protestant to understand that...the sects of protestantism are too into attacking the Catholic Church instead of actually learning about it.

79 posted on 03/07/2007 6:17:50 PM PST by AlaninSA ("Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden)
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To: AlaninSA; Alex Murphy

"Your Bible gets read in snippets during your "services."

You keep making this statement, ignorant of what takes place in our churches. Once again, let me explain to you how we handle the scriptures. I'll go slowly since you seem to have trouble following it. We read the scriptures, in context, whole passages, and then the Pastor exegetes the scriptures for anywhere from 30-45 minutes depending on the scriptures. Usually people are taking notes and following on in their bibles or on the screen where the scriptures are projected. Now I recognize that might seem heavy to you being used to 10 minute "Readers Digest" homilies, but we find it spiritually challenging and following what the early church did.

Most of us read the scriptures through in a year as part of our daily devotions and expect in our congregational gatherings to have the gifts of preaching and teaching exercised.


200 posted on 03/08/2007 7:46:45 PM PST by blue-duncan
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