What! All of the scriptures read at Mass come from the Bible. The priest also blesses the congregation with the Bible.
I was to do a reading during a Mass once and forgot my prepared notes. I wasn't worried about it, because I figured they had a Bible there I could read from. I was wrong; there was no Bible. There's generally no Bible in a Catholic Church.
What a bunch or Hooey, seriously do you expect anyone that has ever been into a Catholic church to believe this?
For those that have never been into a Catholic Church, when the Priest, servers and readers process into the Church, the reader (Which spunkets claims to be) Carries a copy of the Lectionary. This contains all of the readings for the year. The Catholic Church is on a three year cycle. If you attend daily Mass you will hear almost the entire Bible.
In addition most sacristies have at least one Bible and the priest will either have his divine liturgy of the hours or a Bible in the confessional.
Some thing else that is down right hilarious about spunketts comments is that the claim used to be that the Catholics chained the Bible down so that no one but the priest could read it. Disregarding the fact that Bible were so expensive because they were hand copied.
There’s always at least two bibles in a Catholic Church, and I believe this is according to Canon Law. One bible must be placed on the altar during mass. Another is to be presented to the congregation. The grain of truth is that catholics do not, however, as a rule bring their own bibles; they typically use a missal, or missalette to follow along with the prayers or readings.
Of course, the great irony here is that the formal prayers of the mass are composed nearly entirely of biblical quotations, even if the missals don’t point out the chapter and verse that they come from. So while most prayers of most “bible churches” are just off the top of the head of the pastor, the prayers of the Catholic Church are the ancient prayers selected by the apostles and Church Fathers from the bible, itself.
Does it matter? I followed a girl I liked once to a bible church where they prayed to the god of “Shadrach, Mischach and Abednego.” Seemed pretty solid to him, those being the names of three devout Jews from the Book of Daniel. Unfortunately, his bastardized, protestant bible leaves out the part where its explained that those were the pagan names given to Hannaniah, Misha’el and Azariah. Oops... he just led his congregation in prayers to Babylonian demon-gods.
Abednego = “servant of Nergal,” a Babylonian rooster god of the netherworld.
Shadrach = “command of Achu,” a Babylonian moon god.
Which of the 3 Scripture readings were you doing? You don't need prepared notes unless you're doing the homily.
I wasn't worried about it, because I figured they had a Bible there I could read from. I was wrong; there was no Bible.
Why would there need to be a full Bible there for you to use, when the Scripture for that day is provided? You do know that the Mass is not a Bible study session, and that you should do your study of the day's readings in the context of the full Bible before you go to Mass, don't you? The Mass is a celebration of the Eucharist and Bible study is held separately.
What! All of the scriptures read at Mass come from the Bible. The priest also blesses the congregation with the Bible.
Bravo Sierra
There's generally no Bible in a Catholic Church.ROTFLMAO!