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To: daniel1212

Good grief, haven’t you ever been to a Catholic Mass? Half of the Mass is Scripture filled.

And then I would like to take you for a walk through the priest’s Roman missal, where there are so many biblical quotes.

Truly amazing.


186 posted on 12/29/2013 7:36:38 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation; daniel1212; boatbums; bkaycee; wmfights; RnMomof7
Good grief, haven’t you ever been to a Catholic Mass? Half of the Mass is Scripture filled.

Almost any word in the English language can be found in the Bible. You might as well claim that English is Scriture fulled.

The claim that mass is Scripture filled is bogus. There are only 2-3 readings from a limited portion of the Bible and simply reading them and that's that does not give anyone the time to study it, understand it, meditate on it, or in any other way let God use it to effect a change in that person's life through it.

Y'all Catholics who keep telling us that we don't know what the mass is about do need to keep remembering that many of us former Catholics grew up in the RCC and could recite the mass in our heads as it went along. When you hear the same thing aside for the change of the Scripture readings, week after week, month after month, year after year, you do tend to recall it.

Matter of fact, when I have occasion to be in a Catholic church for a funeral or wedding, I can STILL after these 35+ years, recite along with parts of the mass.

And in all that time I was sitting in the RCC hearing mass, none of the Scripture ever made any sense to me. It was not taken in context nor was there was any continuity, no connection relating the passages to each other. One from the OT, one from the Epistles, and one from the Gospels and not related to each other at all.

And the homily rarely expounded on the meaning of the passages.

201 posted on 12/29/2013 10:01:06 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Salvation
Good grief, haven’t you ever been to a Catholic Mass? Half of the Mass is Scripture filled.

Your grief is not good, as is it is more sophistry. We are comparing how much of Scripture a person gets in services, not how much via redundant readings. And as sourced before, even over a two-year cycle of Sunday Masses and Major Feasts only 3.7% of the Old Testament (plus Psalms) is read. Over 2 years! And most RCs do not attend weekly, let alone daily.

And even that is far more than before V2, and the place Rome historically gave to literacy in Scripture when she could control access to Scripture.

And RCs are among the lowest in personal Bible reading, thus they typically are among the most Biblically illiterate.

208 posted on 12/29/2013 11:31:47 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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