Posted on 12/18/2014 5:00:17 PM PST by Salvation
I’ve taught and been in numerous Bible studies.
Your comments?
Advent series ping!
For Advent: The Synoptic Problem
For Advent: Investigate the Abortion Industry
For Advent: The Virgin Birth
For Advent: Two Canons: Scripture & Tradition
For Advent: SAINT JOSEPH AND LIVING OUT ADVENT
For Advent: How to Advent
For Advent -- 24 Quotes About Purity That Every Young (& Old) Catholic Should Know
For Advent: Five Ways To Stop Worrying TODAY!
For Advent: Answering the New Atheism, Dawkins Dismantled
For Advent: The Sunday Propers: Advent and Penance
In Catholic schools, it was hit or miss, mostly because of the times, and my particular diocese. I remember in 10th grade we read much of the Old Testament, like Ruth, Esther, and Judges. Of course, around Christmas, we read the Gospel accounts. And somewhere, we read the differing Creation stories. Of course, during Lent we read the accounts of the Passion.
I agree that I am not a chapter and verse guy. I also admit I should know a heck of a lot more. Fortunately, I have a pretty good textual concordance, and the Haydock Bible (which has excellent commentary).
Its true that many Evangelicals know their Bible upside down and backwards, and compared to them Catholics sometimes seem ignorant of the Bible. But that's only an appearance.
Average Catholics asked today how often they read the Bible likely would say that they do not read the Bible regularly. However, if asked how often they read Scripture, the answer would be different. Practicing Catholics know they read and hear Scripture at every Mass. Many also recognize that basic prayers Catholics say, such as the Our Father and the Hail Mary, are scriptural. But for most Catholics, the Scripture they hear and read is not from the Bible. It is from a worship aid in the pew........Once the printing press was invented, the most commonly printed book was the Bible, but this still did not make Bible-reading a Catholic’s common practice. Up until the mid-twentieth Century, the custom of reading the Bible and interpreting it for oneself was a hallmark of the Protestant churches springing up in Europe after the Reformation. Protestants rejected the authority of the Pope and of the Church and showed it by saying people could read and interpret the Bible for themselves. Catholics meanwhile were discouraged from reading Scripture.
Identifying the reading and interpreting of the Bible as “Protestant” even affected the study of Scripture. Until the twentieth Century, it was only Protestants who actively embraced Scripture study. That changed after 1943 when Pope Pius XII issued the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu. This not only allowed Catholics to study Scripture, it encouraged them to do so. And with Catholics studying Scripture and teaching other Catholics about what they were studying, familiarity with Scripture grew.
-- excerpted from Changes in Catholic Attitudes Toward Bible Readings
Found at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops website
Hey you got in before the Catholic bashers.
During my childhood I went to daily Mass and so listened to scripture daily although I really didn’t pay much attention. I have read the NIV Bible or more exactly listened to Max McLain read it four times. I am now going through the NAB and actually reading and paying attention to the daily Mass readings. I’m also doing a bible study.
I find the title insulting and intellectually dishonest. If the author was really of sober and honest mind it would read “Why don’t Catholics follow the Bible” with a follow-up on that.
Only by two minutes.
Good for you!
Oh wait. I have read Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth - have read his first one twice, going through the Infancy Narative the second time.... plan to go through Holy Week before Easter. Mostly Bible study.... wow amazing.
My family reads the daily lectionary and at least a chapter from the Bible every morning, as well as a few paragraphs of the Catechism. As they grow up, I can’t make them believe, but I can make sure they understand what I believe is true, and why.
I was trying to study my Spanish lectionary this evening, but my 2-year-old insisted on sitting (slumping, squirming, wriggling, kicking) on my lap while she watched the Curious George Christmas movie.
Yes I’ve studied various parts of the bible since Catholic high school in the 1960s. When I mention that we typically hear 3 passages each week at Mass, some FReepers tell me it’s not authentic scripture.
**some FReepers tell me it’s not authentic scripture.**
Say what?
**My family reads the daily lectionary and at least a chapter from the Bible every morning, as well as a few paragraphs of the Catechism.**
What a wonderful family practice. God bless you all.
I could pull up the posts, but not worth the effort.
Tomorrow we’ll start at paragraph 1,674 of the Catechism (”Popular Piety”) and begin the Book of Ruth. We finished Judges this morning. The Bible reading has been going on for at least 15 years, so we’ve read all of it at least once (Leviticus, Numbers ...) and the majority more than once. We do all four Gospels at least once a year; we’ll read Mark again after Ruth.
We started reading the Catechism more recently, maybe two years ago, when my prayer group was doing a study that included Catechism passages. I’d read it all through when it first came out, but that was a long time ago.
Facts are pesky sometimes.
Vatican 2 took care of much of Sheen's concerns when the new lectionary was issued. Biblical emphasis took a firmer place in the council's documents, and Sheen felt vindicated.
Hey, Mercat, I have a couple of recommendations for you:
A wonderful dramatzation of the RSVCE: http://www.ignatius.com/Products/TLDAB-D/the-truth-and-life-dramatized-audio-bible.aspx
And an equally good rendering of the whole Protestant canon in dramatized form: http://www.amazon.com/Word-Promise-Complete-Audio-Bible/dp/0718024133/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418954243&sr=8-1&keywords=word+of+life+audio+bible
Both versions have top notch casts of actors; some are quite well known actors too.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.