Until I stopped going to Catholic Church, I never read a Bible, nor was encouraged to read a Bible, not by the Priest and not by the Catechism class I used to take (that was what it was called at the time).
I still remember how stupid I felt when I went to a denominational Christian church for Sunday School...and all the kids had Bibles to study with and they’d have to help me, for quite some time, even find the book in the Bible we’d be reading that Sunday.
You are still a Catholic and can come back at any time.
Until I stopped going to Catholic Church, I never read a Bible, nor was encouraged to read a Bible, not by the Priest and not by the Catechism class I used to take (that was what it was called at the time).
Same here, we had a huge Catholic Bible stored in a cubby of our china cabinet. It was never taken out or used.
We had the two readings from Scripture and one reading from the Gospels each week. I’ve seen claims by Catholics on FR that the entire Bible is covered in three years. I’ve posted passages that I’d never heard in my 20 years attending Mass. None of them bothered to respond.
To be quite honest, when I sat down and read God’s word I became really angry. I can forgive someone for being misguided. To be willfully ignorant while misleading others is an entirely different situation!