Baloney. I've sat through masses for years and they do NOT go through the whole Bible.
That's been discussed and documented in the past. I don't recall who did it, but pinging some others who may have.
While it is true that significant portions of the Bible, and 100% of the Gospels, are read over a three year cycle, the purpose of the Mass is not to educate, but to make present the one sacrifice, to share in the Body and Blood, and to worship. Within the Mass, like within the Church itself, every word, every object, every motion and gesture is directly from Scripture. It is decidedly not worship or scriptural and highly sacrilegious to substitute a podium for an altar and tabernacle.
Peace be with you
Then you said, "Baloney. I've sat through masses for years and they do NOT go through the whole Bible."
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Of course, the Church does not read certain big chunks of the Bible in the Mass such as the long lists of Mosaic Laws, and appropriate sacrifices for the Israelites, and priestly duties, and the census counting the tribes of Israel in the Books "Leviticus" and "Numbers" and so forth, but it has been my experience that there is much more Biblical quoting and referencing during a Catholic Mass than there is during a Protestant church service, where a preacher usually picks out a verse or two, then preaches about it for a half hour or more.
(In my younger years, I passed through quite a few Protestant denominations on my winding path to the True Church founded by Jesus Christ including -- in alphabetical order -- Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostal, and Seventh-day Adventist, and attended many others, so I know what they do. The Catholic Church goes through a whole lot more Scripture during a Mass than Protestants do during a typical Protestant church service.)
If you don't believe me, you can check for yourself. The monthly "Magnificat" magazine contains all the many Bible references used for the Daily and Sunday Masses for each month, and can be obtained here:
As an added devotional, Catholic clergy and "Religious", and a large number of Catholic lay people, read daily (several times each day) what is known as "The Liturgy of the Hours", which is a cyclical reading through the Psalms and other Biblical readings, and various book forms of those "Liturgy of the Hours" biblical readings can be obtained here: