As a formerly active yet malnourished Catholic, I can say that it is true, that if you attend Catholic services you will hear bible excerpts. But, even if you attend Catholic services every day you will not get more than about 10 percent of the entire Bible over the course of 3 years. You will however get as much as the Catholic leadership has decided is necessary. It will not include much from Romans, Galatians and other epistles, mainly just from the Gospels, Acts, Genesis and Exodus.
Even in evangelical services where the Bible is literally taught line apon line through every chapter and verse it typically takes at least three years and nice long in depth teaching before a pastor can say, like Paul, “I have not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel of God.”
Please post something that supports this claim.
HUH?
Huh? We really only get readings from Acts during the Easter Season. There is a Gospel at EVERY Mass. The epistle I hear come out of a lector's mouth most often is Romans with Corinthians a close second and from the OT, there's more Isaiah than anything else. The readings are chosen to match each other.
I don't have a Lectionary in front of me, but your statement is simply not true.
***You will however get as much as the Catholic leadership has decided is necessary. It will not include much from Romans, Galatians and other epistles, mainly just from the Gospels, Acts, Genesis and Exodus.***
Umm, Paul is read approximately 50 Sundays of every year.
good Lord! we get all that and more...were you sleeping during mass?