No! Actually, if one went to mass every time it was offered for three years, they would have heard the entire Bible. Like I have said before, we (Catholics) read 3 passages from the Bible at each mass. One is from the Old Testament, and 2 from the New( one of which is the Gospel reading...) Most, if not all Catholics have a Bible in their home... for example, my family has 3...uhhh ... maybe more...
As http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2009/07/top-10-misconceptions-about-catholic.html states, "The very first printed Bible was produced under the auspices of the Catholic Church – printed by the Catholic inventor of the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg. And the very first Bible with chapters and numbered verses was produced by the Catholic Church–the work of Stephen Langton, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury."The blogger is also so nice as to add this tidbit of information for us "This myth (that the Church doesn't allow Catholics to read the Bible..) has come about because Bibles were often locked away in Churches in the past, but that was not to prevent people having access – it was to prevent them being stolen. These were hand written Bibles which were incredibly valuable due to scarcity."
The Bible was produced in many languages from the beginning, and although it may have started with just Latin and Greek, as literacy grew, so did the translations. Before the printing press was invented by Gutenburg in 1450, handwritten translations were written in Hungarian, Polish, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, and Bohemian by Catholic monks/priests. And by the Protestant Reformation in 1517, there were also 18 different German translations, along with French and Italian. (Thanks, Al Kresta for writing Why Catholics do Genuflect?)
Well, that's all for today. Until tomorrow readers!
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