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?
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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.
No, the procession has a BIBLE. Not a missalette. Also, In the front of every Catholic church, there has always been a bible for anyone to peruse at any time. But no, Catholics are NOT handed out bibles as they enter the church. Saying that is a far cry from saying that bibles aren’t found there. If you’re debating in a thread about how the Catholic church supposedly wants to keep people ignorant, and so therefore purposely denies people access to the bible, it’s entirely your fault if people read your false claim that there is are no bibles, and don’t immediately understand you to mean that there aren’t hundreds of bibles.
The plain, simple matter is that unlike in some Protestant churches, the readings are universal, and known far in advance, and therefore it is cheaper to publish 150 sets of readings than the entire bible. In the old days, this was a very significant matter. Since anyone can read the single, treasured, huge bible any time they want, it makes me wonder what the whole point is. Chiniquy’s was that Catholics weren’t supposed to read their bibles. Since that is ridiculously, absurdly, delusionally false, what’s yours?