The problem , just as it is with the scripture in the mass.. it is out of context ..unless one attends mass daily a catholic never gets the context , even then it is so separated by 24 hours it has little connection to yesterdays readings
And the cure for that is to go to a Protestant church where the minister spends 45 minutes a week harping on two verses from Romans or Galatians, before moving on to the next two verses from Romans or Galatians? Don't tell me they don't do that; I live in the South and my car radio works just fine. If lack of attention to context is what you're complaining about, there's no shortage of offenders in the Protestant camp.
In any case, priests are required to pray the Breviary 4 times a day, every day, and if a priest doesn't know how to look up the readings given the chapter and verse citation, to see the context, he should probably either learn or get out of the priesthood.
We should celebrate everyone who comes to know and accept Yah'shua.shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiachWhat I see here are people who indulge in the politics of personal destruction.
9 He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets, Therefore do not associate with a gossip.These seem to be another sign of the End Times.20 For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;
NAU 2 Timothy 3:1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Slacker that I am, I sometimes slide. But when I'm there, guess who I see in the pews near me while I'm searching my way through my dog-eared, peanut-butter-stained Bible? Laypeople (Ed, Arlene, Norm, Gretchen, Fred, Kendra, Rick, Judy, Jean with or without her daughter Kim --- of course you don't know these people, but it gives me pleasure to list them) plus either Deacon Mike or one of the two priests (they alternate between 7:00 or 8:30 Mass every day.)
It's only a handful at the 7:00 --- a bigger handful at the 8:30 --- but then I could add in those who read the Bible at Eucharistic Adoration, which would be at least 168 a week. And this is a small parish.
My point is not to say "look at me, I'm so holy and Bible-icious" (perhaps I should balance it off by discussing my sins and faults and slackery elsewhere) (that's another, longer story!) but my point is that Catholics are strongly encouraged to read the Bible in conjunction with the daily Liturgy to get the context, and many of us do.
All priests say daily Mass and at least part of the Liturgy of the Hours, which is jammed with Scripture, and on such a regular basis, that many of them manage to memorize good chunks of it.
Bottom line: I seriously doubt that the person who wrote this was a priest. There are all kinds of eye-rolling gaffes showing that even if he ever were a priest, he was asleep at the wheel.
Zzzzz.
And now for his lack of devotion he wants to blame someone, anyone other than himself!
I am not impressed.