Give me the Bible... and keep it simple. I will be happy to read the words of Christ and His prophets.
Well that is not an issue in this case because whether one is using the traditional Latin Mass or the Novus Ordo, the Scripture Lessons are read in the vernacular (and also chanted in Latin in the TLM), which was called for by Vatican II, and the Roman Church also has the Office of Reading specifically for reading scripture.
Also while I maintain it was not a success due to omissions, the three year lectionary introduced by the Roman Church which later became standard across most Western denominations, with a few minor alterations, as the Revised Common Lectionary, was intended to increase scripture reading.
If we look at the Byzantine Rite used by the Eastern Catholic churches in communion with the Roman Catholics, and which is the primary liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox, who are of course not in communion with Rome since 1054, the liturgy reads straight through the entire Bible in the course of one year, and the Book of Psalms is read twice per week in Lent and once per week outside of Lent, with some Psalms repeated.
And if we look at the liturgy of the Coptic Rite used by the Coptic Orthodox and Coptic Catholics, there are five New Testament lessons during the main liturgy, which is always prefaced by the Hours, in which the entire congregation is assigned at random two Psalms to read from their pocket Psalters, or Agpeyas, and a fixed Gospel lesson is read for each Hour, except during Holy Week when this changes. And then the Old Testament is read in its entirety at Psalmody celebrated nightly or on Saturday Night, and the Coptic Rite churches also read the entire Book of Revelation on Bright Saturday, in which the supreme Sabbath in which our Lord, God and Savior rested in the tomb before His resurrection is commemorated before the celebration of the Paschal Liturgy occurs in the evening.
Also, if we look at the text of these traditional liturgies, virtually every word from every service is taken from Scripture. In the case of the Byzantine Rite, it is about 93%. Also the traditional Eastern liturgies and some of the Western liturgies are arranged so as to present the entire history of salvation by our Lord in every liturgy.
These measures greatly reduce the scope for a pastor to inadvertently mislead the laity through ill-advised preaching.
Now it should also be stressed that the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern churches and the Masses of the Western churches such as the Lutherans, Anglicans and Catholics (and everything I have written is also applicable to the traditional editions of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, and also the Lutheran liturgies), these services are equivalent to the monthly or quarterly celebration of the Lord’s Supper and Foot Washing done in the SDA. However, if for some reason a priest is not available or Holy Communion cannot be celebrated, in the Anglican, Byzantine and other rites, there is a provision for an alternate service that in the Traditional Latin Mass is known as a Dry Mass, in the Anglican liturgy, Ante-Communion, and in the Byzantine Rite, the Typika, in which all the Scripture appointed to be read during the Eucharistic liturgy is read despite the lack of the Holy Communion, and this service can be celebrated by laity if a priest is unavailable.
This is in addition to all of the scripture appointed to be read in the Divine Office at Matins, Vespers, or Morning Prayer or Choral Evensong, or the Liturgy of the Hours in the Roman Church, or at Psalmody and the Hours in the Coptic Church, et cetera. Because all of that still has to be read in church.
And that is in addition to the scripture included in services like the Annointing of the Sick with Oil, which is done for the whole congregation at least once a year on the last day of Lent, the Friday before Lazarus Saturday, which commemorates the raising of Lazarus and is followed by Palm Sunday, in both the Coptic and Byzantine Rites; this service includes a massive amount of scripture, with seven Psalms, seven New Testament lessons and seven prayers in addition to even more scripture in the portions preceding it. And the same is true for marriages, funerals and so on.
This approach works better than Lectio Continua or arbitrary lectionary selections by the pastor, because it ensures that more scripture is read, and precludes the pastor from prioritizing his personal favorite portions.