Yes, you have to read the New Testament — which is what is done each day in Church at mass.And, of course, to put YOPIOS on my text leads to a false interpretation of the "bible read in it's entirety at mass each day". To come to the erroneous conclusion we read the entire Bible each Sunday instead of my text which clearly points out we read from the various books of the Bible (OT, Epistles, Gospels) in their entirety rather than in excerpts. Just like the errors sola scriptura folks make in scripture, these all derive from excerpted reading and misinterpretation.
We read from the New Testament each day in mass
And, unlike some of your groupings, we read the NT, OT in their entirety
We read The Bible in it's entirety, not excerpts
— we read the Gospels, the Epistles, Revelation, we read psalms, the Pentateuch etc. all in mass
If you ever attend Sunday mass, you will hear the singing of psalms, the readings from the Old Testament, the New Testament (Epistles, Revelation etc) and the Gospel. we read all of these during mass -- from the entire Bible, not excerpts, not focusing just on the epistles, but showing how the OT points to the Gospels and the Epistles point BACK to the Gospels, since the Gospels are the CRUX of the NT
—> we, Christ’s Church, the One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church ARE the New Testament Church. This is evidenced in the reading of Acts, in the writings of First Century Christians (Didache, +Ireneus etc).
This is plainly obvious to anyone reading Early Christian text that the practises of the Early Christians, from the mass with the Eucharist to the apostolic succession etc. is the basis of Church tradition -- not only of the Catholic churches but also of our Oriental and Assyrian brethern who have been separated from us for centuries, a lot of the time by distance and hostile nations.
I must be dense, because I still don't get how what you're claiming is different from how I read it. I'm going to take a wild guess, therefore, and ask if what you're really trying to say is this:
We read from various books of the Bible in its entirety (i.e. from a Bible that includes the Apocryphal books), rather than from an excerpt (i.e. from a Bible that does not include the Apocryphal books)If that's what you're trying to say, the way you actually stated it is incorrect and completely alters the actual meaning. Given an earlier exchange between us, where you pointed me to a Polish language webpage, I'm guessing the failure can be explained by English not being your primary written language.
As I've demonstrated, Apocrypha or not, you're still reading excerpts. Your Lectionary doesn't lie. The Catholic Lectionary calls for reading excerpts from the "Bible in its entirety". And prior to 2008, the Catholic Lectionary skipped the entire OT. And you want to talk about excerpting the text?
I'm really having trouble with this Catholic definition of "entirety". Even optimistically speaking, your Catholic glass isn't half-full, it's three-quarters empty. What good is having a "non-excerpted" Bible if you still don't read all of it?
And, of course, you accuse Alex Murphy of something he never said.
Arrogance? Ignorance? I dunno, but it certainly isn't factual.