id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _003394014 Carr, Cornelius J. The Old Testament in the mass 1951 .txt text/plain 16807 1001 81 Old Testament sacrifices were effective in keeping before the Jewish nation the fact of its complete dependence on God, the God Who, as He liked to remind them, led the chosen peo- ple out of the land of bondage.1,*? In his book on Liturgical Prayer, when speak- ing of the antiphons and psalms used in the Church's ritual, Dom Cabrol remarks: These reminiscences of the patriarchs and the people of God, so frequently met with in Catholic liturgy, point to its true origin; it goes back in an unbroken line to a time beyond that of our Lord Jesus Christ, beyond the prophets, beyond the patriarchs, even to the very beginning of the world. cache/_003394014.txt txt/_003394014.txt