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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not any more, but was for 28 years, attending mass every Sunday, and once a week with school through grade 12.  Yes, we occasionally had some Old Testament readings, I was exaggerating somewhat, but the majority of readings were from the New Testament.  We definitely didn't go through 90 percent of the bible.  I can assue you that I have never heard most of Numbers, Tobit, Deutoronomy, Judges, Chronicles, Nehemiah, Lamentations, etc. read at our masses.
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You're remembering incorrectly. Every Sunday mass has an Old Testament reading, with a few exceptions during certain times of the year like Easter.[/quote]

Yep.  Mass readings consist of the First Reading from the Old Testament, a verse from the Book of Psalms (also Old Testament), and the Second Reading which is from the New Testament.

You heard something from the Old Testament approximately fifty weeks out of the year.
I do agree, as I stated in an earlier post, that for the most part Catholics do not study the bible the way that other religious denominations do.[/quote]

I agree with the earlier PP -- there were many books of the Old Testament that were either never mentioned or get very short shrift in the three year catholic liturgical cycle.   If the only exposure you have to the Old Testament as a Catholic is through readings at church you would not get a good sense at all of what is in the Old Testament.

In CCD we did read some of the acts of the apostles, but nothing else.[/quote]

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