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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you mind if I ask how long ago it was that you went to Catholic school? I was also raised Catholic and went to parochial school, and we spent a lot of time reading the Bible. My kids have also spent some years in Catholic school where they also spent a fair amount of time reading the Bible.

Catholics have been spending a lot of time with the Bible for most of my life, but I know older people say that they didn’t read it much when they were kids. I’m in my late 50s, so maybe you are older than I am.[/quote]

NP- I am 37 and went to Catholic schools and haven’t read the Bible much at all. I still attend Mass weekly (online during COVID).[/quote]

NP- I’m 47 and attended Catholic school and we didn’t spend much time reading the Bible.[/quote]

I'm 53, 15 years of Catholic school, and I'm pretty sure there was a Bible somewhere in the house. Maybe. But in my recollection, we didn't hold the actual book and read it, we read parts that were in text books with other writings and explanations and artwork, had parts read to us, etc. And certainly in early elementary school we were dealing with 'dumbed down' translations for kids, mostly interesting stories and poems. College courses were much more academic and involved the text and discussions of translations, translators, linguistics, history, theories of the writers, etc.[/quote]

The words of the Bible are the words of the Bible, no matter what format they are in. Studying bible passages in a textbook or in a bible study workbook is still studying the Bible.

Many Catholics don’t realize how much time they have actually spent reading/hearing the Bible, especially in the context of daily or Sunday Mass, as other posters have noted. Each Mass has a reading from the Hebrew Bible, a psalm (also from the Hebrew Bible), and two readings from the New Testament. In addition, every homily is supposed to be a discussion of the Bible passages read at that Mass, so can add to our understanding of the Bible in that way. 
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