Why don't Catholics take their Bibles with them to Church?

If you have ever been invited to a Catholic Mass or drove past a Catholic Church on a Sunday morning you may have noticed something missing that most other Christians carry with them into church; a Bible. Why is this?

The common misconception is that Catholics have a low view of scripture because the scriptures obviously contradict their unbiblical traditions. Thus, if the Catholics actually read their Bibles they would uncover the lie they have been taught and become real Bible Christians.

Yet, the real reason lies in the liturgy.

• The liturgy (order of the service) is drenched with scripture. In fact if you look at the mass you will most notably see the book of Revelation coming to life. Due to illiteracy during the majority of the first 1600 years of the Church the main way the faithful learned the Bible was experiencing it through the liturgy.
• Priests don’t get “long winded” as some of my evangelical friends complain about their pastors. Each mass has set readings; one from the Old Testament, one from Psalms, on Sundays and special days a reading from the New Testament, and a Gospel reading. These readings are provided to the faithful through missals or congregational books, in the church, that also contain hymns. Since you know what your priest will be preaching from their is no need to bring any extra material since he won’t be going off of those set scriptures. Some may argue that this promotes dryness and doesn’t allow the spirit to move within the homilist; however, the Church has gone to special detail to ensure that all the readings have a special correlation with one another. Besides the point; when is the last time your pastor preached from the Psalms or the OT instead of focusing the majority of his time on an epistle of Paul?