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W: ....every Catholic parish has daily Mass, not just weekly Mass and 99% of the Scriptures (except for the censuses of Numbers) are read out in full at those Masses.

R: ....that 12.7% is Sunday Mass only which ignores daily Mass. Including what is read each day, the entire Bible is read at Mass each year except for portions like census figures and details only relevant to the Old Testament Jewish priesthood.

Check the charts in the thread I linked to. The OT reading cycle repeats every two years, and in those two years, the daily mass only covers 13.5% of the Old Testament (3378 verses). The NT reading cycle repeats every three years, and in three years' time the daily mass covers 71.5% of the New Testament (5689 verses).

Now the Bible has a total of 33001 verses, and all of them are inspired; do the math, and you'll find your daily mass only covers 27.5% of the whole. Let me emphasis this next part for the lurkers: do you, as Catholics, advocate the corporate abandonment of nearly 75% of the inspired text? Catholic apologists take Martin Luther to task for having considered removing James and Revelation from the NT. Meanwhile, Catholic liturgy has been silent on the majority of the inspired text for nearly two millennia. How else can we explain answers which mistake a minority of the Bible with the whole thing?

As a thankful Catholic convert of a few years I must admit I have never heard anyone advocate abandoning Sacred Scripture in any way.

If one wishes to read more verses of Sacred Scripture not read in Mass have at it. Myself, I am rather fond of the Book of Tobit.

Peace be with you always.

No liturgical church reads 100% of the Bible in their lectionary, nor do any claim that only those passages read during the liturgy are inspired, so you're talking in red herring terms.

What percentage of the Bible is read or preached on at your church's Sunday services in 3 years' time. How do you know?