I guess it's a good thing I'm not a Baptist then, isn't it?And you offer a guarantee? Where can my Baptist friends turn in their receipts?
Calvin's preaching was of one kind from beginning to end: he preached steadily through book after book of the Bible. He never wavered from this approach to preaching for almost twenty-five years of ministry in St. Peter's church of Geneva - with the exception of a few high festivals and special occasions. "On Sunday he took always the New Testament, except for a few Psalms on Sunday afternoons. During the week . . . it was always the Old Testament". The records show fewer than half a dozen exceptions for the sake of the Christian year. He almost entirely ignored Christmas and Easter in the selection of his text.And don't forget, "the Gospels don't apply to us in the church age". Ever heard that? I have.To give you some idea of the scope of the Calvin's pulpit, he began his series on the book of Acts on August 25, 1549, and ended it in March of 1554. After Acts he went on to the epistles to the Thessalonians (46 sermons), Corinthians (186 sermons), pastorals (86 sermons), Galatians (43 sermons), Ephesians (48 sermons) - till May 1558. Then there is a gap when he is ill. In the spring of 1559 he began the Harmony of the Gospels and was not finished when he died in May, 1564. During the week of that season he preached 159 sermons on Job, 200 on Deuteronomy, 353 on Isaiah, 123 on Genesis and so on.
One of the clearest illustrations that this was a self-conscious choice on Calvin's part was the fact that on Easter Day, 1538, after preaching, he left the pulpit of St. Peter's, banished by the City Council. He returned in September, 1541 - over three years later - and picked up the exposition in the next verse.
-- excerpted from John Piper's The Divine Majesty Of The Word
I guess it's a good thing I'm not a radical dispensationalist, either.
Now, does listening at Mass replacing personal Bible study? No, and Rome says it doesn't, and has said so repeatedly.
Yes, I'm well aware that "Rome" has advocated regular, private Bible study - since at least 2005, in fact. However, several of your fellow FRCatholics have posted to me recently that listening at Mass constitutes reading the entire Bible. IMO those conversations led to this very thread being posted.
BTW, several other FRCatholics are ignorant as to who this "Rome" you speak of is. You might need to take them aside and give them an education.
It’s sola scriptura again. For Calvin for sure. And I think his verse-by-verse would be a rarity today. Certainly I never saw this in years of Baptist preaching.
“Going to Church on Sunday” is two different things for Protestants and Catholics. For Protestants, the major time part is the sermon, which is akin to a lecture in my experience. Usually there was a Bible passage or two that was referred to, sometimes the sermon was akin to a Bible study in toto.
The major part of Mass is not the homily. To turn the Mass into a lecture and Bible Study would be to severely miss why we are “Going to Church on Sunday.”
So a comparison of how much scripture is read is a false comparison, as well as one for which we do not even have both quantified to compare.