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“Scripture reading at mass only began in recent decades, and likely because of pressure to be more like evangelical churches. Then one can ask, how many Catholics attend daily mass”

So how many evangelicals attend daily services? Name me another faith other than Catholicism where services are held every day of the week. A Catholic Mass is going on somewhere in the world each and every minute of the day. Protestant faiths that read scripture during services are copying Catholic Masses. It’s so egregious with Lutherans and Episcopalians you can hardly tell their services from a Catholic Mass.

Most pentacostal/evangelical churches I went to before I became Catholic was one man standing on the stage beating his fist into a Bible telling everyone they were going to hell if they didn’t change. No one read from the Bible but him. Then as the collection basket was passed around he kept saying the more money you gave the better God would like you. After services he hoped in his cadillac and took off with his blonde-headed girlfriend counting the days booty.

Apparently you didn't pay much attention...Those pastors always supply numerous scripture references and tell the congregation to go home and study those scriptures in their bibles (yes, Protestants own bibles) and the rest of the bible as well...

Telling people they are going to hell if they don't repent and believe...IT'S IN THE BIBLE...Of course they believe in a real heaven and hell...It is not a Catholic figment of their imaginations...

But they don't sell indulgences...You don't like them passing the hat??? Had a cousin who was a Catholic and he was sent a bill each month based on his income and was expected to pay it, plus, any other offerings the Catholic religion deemed appropriate...

Name me another faith other than Catholicism where services are held every day of the week.

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.

Every day Orthodox Jews have three prayer services, morning, afternoon, and evening; as well as individual prayers from when they wake and when they go to sleep. In the morning,

I offer thanks to You,
living and eternal King,
for You have mercifully restored my soul within me;
Your faithfulness is great.

and at night

Master of the universe! I hereby forgive anyone who has angered or vexed me, or sinned against me, either physically or financially, against my honor or anything else that is mine, whether accidentally or intentionally, inadvertently or deliberately, by speech or by deed, in this incarnation or in any other – any Israelite; may no man be punished on my account. May it be Your will, L-rd my G-d and G-d of my fathers, that I shall sin no more nor repeat my sins, neither shall I again anger You nor do what is wrong in Your eyes. The sins I have committed, erase in Your abounding mercies, but not through suffering or severe illnesses. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before You, L-rd, my Strength and my Redeemer.

Right now I hve to believe you wouldn’t really consider what I say in reply, so at least for now, I’m just going to reply on your first claim:

“So how many evangelicals attend daily services? Name me another faith other than Catholicism where services are held every day of the week.”

First, you didn’t address the point, which was that Catholics say they get the Bible through mass even if they don’t read it. And second, what does having or not having a daily mass prove? Jesus and His apostles wrote of things of real importance, and if it were God’s plan (that is, necessary), they would have revealed that.