[Alex Murphy]

Go to Mass sometime. On the back of the pew in front of you is a little box. In the box are some books. Pick up a book. Remember what day it is today. Look up the date in the book. Find the reading. Read it. Problem solved.

Better still - collect all of those entries, cut them out and tape them together in book/chapter/verse order, and then read them end-to-end. Make a list of the breaks in verses, grab a Bible, and fill in the blanks with the 70+% in verses that are missing from the pew material.

Even easier, just grab the Bible and read it end-to-end. Some of the confusion is probably being caused by the text being broken up into small, disjointed readings.

[Campion]

Some of the confusion is probably being caused by the text being broken up into small, disjointed readings.

What "confusion"? I'm not confused. Are you confused?

Disjointed? This is year B. We're doing the Gospel of Mark this year, except during Lent and some other times, when it's John every year.

The Old Testament reading is generally the type of which the Gospel reading is the antitype.

Many Protestants use the a similar lectionary ("Revised Common Lectionary"). Since all you guys are so wonderfully united in all the essentials, shall I assume you're fine with it ... as long as they do it?

[terycarl]

Even easier, just grab the Bible and read it end-to-end. Some of the confusion is probably being caused by the text being broken up into small, disjointed readings.

I can only presume that you are referring to the complete ( Catholic) version of the Bible and not necessarily the Readers Digest condensed and abridged edition provided after the revolution..

[avenir]

“Even easier, just grab the Bible and read it end-to-end. Some of the confusion is probably being caused by the text being broken up into small, disjointed readings.”

Along that line, God has blessed me through listening to whole books on MP3. Afterwards I’ve done studies along with a teacher online. Something about listening to a good reading of Scripture short circuits the Proof Texting chip and one gets a real sense of what the Lord is saying without denominational manipulation. Yeah, they all do it, unwittingly.

[Grateful2God]

Better still - collect all of those entries, cut them out and tape them together in book/chapter/verse order, and then read them end-to-end. Make a list of the breaks in verses, grab a Bible, and fill in the blanks with the 70+% in verses that are missing from the pew material. Even easier, just grab the Bible and read it end-to-end. Some of the confusion is probably being caused by the text being broken up into small, disjointed readings.

Isn't it amazing what some non-Catholics THINK they know about Catholicism? How sad for us poor, short-attention-span people who actually belong and know what it is REALLY like.

Alex, why don't you take humility for a hundred? Remember to answer in the form of a question! :)

[caww]

.....”Even easier, just grab the Bible and read it end-to-end”....

If I depended on reading only during church service, or if catholic, listening or reading what’s on the bench...I’d be starving from malnutrition!

There is a huge difference between “taking it in” from preachers and teachers and then having your own time in Gods Word , and this with the Lord, to confirm or not what is being taught. Especially when one may not be familiar or question what’s said, or written.

You really cannot be growing ‘in the Lord’ apart from time with Him and study in His Word independent of what any church offers.

It’s not complicated as some think...God can and does teach no matter where you read in His Word if you make Him the teacher rather than depending entirley on being fed like a baby from teachers and Priests etc.