[metmom]

Actually, you're wrong, the vast majority of Catholics have read the Bible, all hear it every day at Mass which is scripture in every bit.

BWAHAHA!!!

That's presuming for one thing, that the vast majority of Catholics go to mass every day. Or even once a week.

Nor is reading snippets of Scripture printed in the missal *reading* the Bible.

Do they sit down and actually READ it? How do you know?

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. (Matt. 28:19) right up to People: Thanks be to God. (2 Cor 9:15)

Quote mining to the max. EVERYTHING is taken out of context. Stringing together unrelated sections of verses doe snot make the mass *based* on Scripture.

You do realize, don't you, that the monotony of the liturgy in the mass allows people to mindlessly recite what is being said without even thinking about it? They're conditioned to those responses like Pavlov's dogs.

Anyone can be conditioned to give the correct response with enough repetition.

[Cronos]

Do they sit down and actually READ it? How do you know?

Here you got 3 on FR to tell you we do read the Bible and actually do READ it (we don't read a 14-page excerpted annoted version like what your group is handed out, we read the Bible)

And we celebrate The Word of God in the Mass, right from In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. (Matt. 28:19) right up to People: Thanks be to God. (2 Cor 9:15)

[MarkBsnr]

Anyone can be conditioned to give the correct response with enough repetition.

A true witness of the Reformation.