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To: ansel12
If the Catholics don't have a Bible in their hand, how are they reading it?

Have you ever heard of a missal? Mine is chock-full of Scripture. I have that missal in my hand during Mass. If I were to leave it at home, I could listen to the readings, of which there are several at every Mass.
136 posted on 07/28/2013 7:41:11 PM PDT by Deo volente (God willing, America shall survive this Obamanation.)
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To: Deo volente; dangus

A missal or missalette, not a bible, doesn’t anyone read the thread or the posts, it would save us having to keep repeating things over and over and over, BIBLES.

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Why are Bibles not supplied for Mass?

Full Question
Why are Bibles not supplied for Mass? In fact, at my parish, no printed copies of the readings are supplied. Why?

Answer
Catholic parishes usually supply missalettes, which contain both the prayers for the Mass and the Scripture readings of the day. Bibles are not supplied for Mass because they are not usually used at Mass. Some parishes prefer that congregants listen only to the lector rather than silently reading along with the lector, and they encourage this by not providing missalettes. Still, providing a missalette makes available one more means by which the assembly can participate in the liturgy of the word specifically and in the Mass generally.


138 posted on 07/28/2013 11:03:14 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Santorum appeared on CBS and pronounced George Zimmerman guilty of murder, first degree. March-2012)
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To: Deo volente; ansel12
Have you ever heard of a missal? Mine is chock-full of Scripture. I have that missal in my hand during Mass. If I were to leave it at home, I could listen to the readings, of which there are several at every Mass.

Have you ever read the Bible? It's 100% scripture, and your missal readings only cover 27.5% of it.

146 posted on 07/29/2013 7:45:16 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("...Someone handed the keys to the Forum to the OPC and its sympathizers...")
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