How about stop commentating on it, and just get back to the subject?Oh it wasn’t a criticism. I was just worried we might get into trouble for wandering far off topic. Now that we’ve wandered off topic again, what’s to do?
This is why I believe its important to accept the God given authorities placed over us.
I have. Thanks for your unwavering support.How about stop commentating on it, and just get back to the subject?
I believe it was a departure from the truth based on the false doctrine of scripture alone.
Manny, I am not going to take your word against the lectionary itself. Sorry. You can go look at it online and see quite easily that it only covers a fraction of the OT. I don’t care how long you have been a Catholic–the evidence here is against you.
Until 1969, there was no 3 year cycle. The old missal used the same readings every year, so much less of the Bible was actually covered in Mass.This was a little tongue-in-cheek inside joke. The CC reads the entire bible at Mass on a 3 year cycle. Most days we read an OT verse, sing a psalm, then a reading from the letters of the Apostles, then a reading from the Gospel. If you go to Mass every week for 3 years you will hear the entire bible read to you out loud (in your native tongue).
That’s just the week-day lectionary. Did you also include the Sundays, as well? (Just curious.)
I ponder that as well.
Kinda funny that Latin is now a dinosaur (extinct) language…isn’t it? Just how many people today even know what Latin is? If it is truly the language of God you would think a billion Catholic people would be speaking it and that God would want it preserved. How many Catholics in the olden days even had a clue what the salvation message was because it was in Latin? So much for oral tradition.
Uh - all literate people have heard of Latin.
Who claims that it’s the “language of God?”
They learned the Gospel message in their Catechism classes.The Mass is not a Catechism class or a Sunday School - it’s the worship of God. We don’t need to understand the language in order to worship God - all we need are hearts that love Him. Catechism classes are where the teaching and learning happens, and these have always been in the language of the people.
It isn’t dead, there is a interest among young Catholics who want to hear the Latin Mass. Today there are billions of Bibles printed in hundreds of different languages and that is why Evangelicalism is making inroads in South America and other places in the world.
The Bible is not easily read. If it is not read carefully, people can justify murder. Case in point, David Koresh. Only the Church is the sole interpreter of the Bible not individuals.
Reading the Bible cannot save you. You have to be baptized first. If that were the case, how do you suppose illiteral people can be saved back in the early days of Christianity. Back then, there were only two classes of people the, the literate (read) and the illerate (the ones who cannot read).
For some. For others the Christians who preceded them don’t seem terribly important, I guess. Why should anyone make any effort to understand them?
Well I guess for someone whose entire view of Christianity is bound up in a 21st Century, literate, affluent, Western point of view this rhetorical question might be meaningful. However Christianity is 2000 years old and has extended well beyond a 21st Century, literate, affluent, Western point of view. And therefore this rhetorical question is not meaningful. It is provincial.
Nancie, has anyone said that Latin is the language of God?
Actually quite a few had a rudimentary knowledge of Latin. Not enough to become biblical scholars. However the Bible was not how Christianity was taught to the common people. It was taught through the homilies, through sacred art, sacred music, and through theatre.
So much for 1500 years of history then.
Evangelicalism is not making inroads among the illiterate. It is making inroads among those who want entertainment rather than the Holy Mass. People are exercising their free will to be tares rather than wheat.
Except for over 90% of the world who can’t read. But they don’t matter, do they? Jesus wasn’t really concerned for the poor, was He?
The poor, the illiterate, the non-leisure class were just the least of His. Hhmmm… I wonder if anyone remembers what He said we were to do about the least of His.So you read a different Bible passage at each Mass? That’s it? The priest doesn’t explain the text? This is why people need a good sermon from a Bible thumping preacher. Eighty percent of the Pentecostal church is made up of former Catholics who heard a sermon explaining the salvation message…
The priest explains the Passage from the First Reading, Second Reading, and Gospel Readings. I know many Catholic priest who give very good sermons. Priest like Fr. Corapi, Fr. Peter, Fr. Paul, and others.
Nancie’s post are always Anti-Catholic.