[Alex Murphy]

The Catholic Mass is totally Bible centred
... What many Evangelicals don’t know is that each Catholic Mass has four Bible readings in it

What many Catholics don't know is that the Mass skips almost three-quarters of the Bible. For example, the daily Mass-attending Catholic hears 3378 verses (13.5%) out of the Old Testament in two years' time, and 5689 verses (71.5%) out of the New Testament in three years' time (the reading cycles repeat themselves after that). The Bible has 33001 verses, yet only 9067 are read in Mass, i.e. only 27.5% of the entire Bible (excluding Psalms) is heard by a daily-Mass-attending Catholic.

Check out the charts for yourself on the thread Lectionary Statistics - How much of the Bible is included in the Lectionary for Mass? (Popquiz!)

[wideawake]

Leaving aside the fact that the average nondenominational/Evangelical hears less of the Bible at service than a Catholic hears at Sunday Mass, a Catholic who attends Mass daily will hear the entire Bible read to him over the three year cycle.

The percentage of non-Catholic pastors who systematically read the entire Bible from their pulpits to their congregation is approximately zero. The percentage of Catholic pastors who do so is approximately 100%.

[vladimir998]

What’s interesting about the statistics you posted is that, if true, then Protestants probably only hear about 6% to 10%of the Bible in three years’ attendance of Protestant services. I say that because no non-liturgical Protestant goes to church services every day. None. And even those who go every Sunday would only go over a small portion with the service - often far less than what Catholics hear and read at Mass. Your statistics have really opened my eyes to just how deprived of scriptures through their sects Protestants are. No wonder so many Protestants know so little about God’s Word.

[Salvation]

A good reference book for the biblical quotations in the Mass.

A Biblical Walk Through the Mass by Edward Sri (Book Review) [Ecumenical]