{"id":12813,"date":"2013-05-14T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=12813"},"modified":"2015-03-19T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T23:24:41","slug":"lex-orandi-lex-credendi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/14\/lex-orandi-lex-credendi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/youSVxbAhwc\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" \/>Do Catholics know the Bible?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I remember the first time I heard the Bible at Mass. By that, I don&#8217;t mean the first time I heard a Reading from Scripture in the Liturgy of the Word. No, I&#8217;m referring to the first time I heard some words from the lips of the priest and thought to myself <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;Hey, that&#8217;s straight from Scripture&#8221;<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Now, I knew some of the more prominent features of the liturgy such as the <em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Gloria<\/span><\/em>, <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Sanctus<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Kyrie<\/em><\/span> came from Scripture, but I thought that was pretty much it. It turns out I was very wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/youSVxbAhwc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">So when was the first time I <em>&#8220;heard the Bible at Mass&#8221;<\/em>? Well, I was an altar server and went to wash the priest&#8217;s hands prior to the Eucharistic prayer. The priest came forward and, as I poured water over his hands, he said the words <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;Lord, wash away my iniquity \u00a0and cleanse me from my sin&#8221;<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0I recognized those words! I had been reading through the book of Psalms at the time and recognized the verse from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+51:2&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\">Psalm 51<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #993300\"><em>Wash away\u00a0all my iniquity<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and cleanse\u00a0me from my sin\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Psalm 51:2<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Sound familiar? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">After that experience, I began to pay closer attention to the words of the Mass. Again and again I found that virtually everything that was said came from Scripture.\u00a0In fact, now whenever I have non-Catholic Christians attend Mass with me, I invite them to keep a tally of the number of Scripture quotations or Biblical allusions they hear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">So do Catholics know the Bible? Well, maybe better than they think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Catholics know the Bible? I remember the first time I heard the Bible at Mass. By that, I don&#8217;t mean the first time I heard a Reading from Scripture in the Liturgy of the Word. 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