One needs also, apparently, to make a distinction between Mass on Sundays
and on weekdays and feastdays. A spot-check of my 1961 Saint Andrew
Daily Missal shows most Sunday epistles to be taken from the NT (either
from various epistles or esp. during the Easter season from the Acts of
the Apostles) while other masses have readings from the Old Testament.
Miscellaneous examples include Saturday in Ember Week of Advent (four
lessons from Isaiah, a fifth lesson from Daniel followed by the Hymn
of Daniel, and the epistle from Thessalonians); Epiphany (on Jan. 6,
unlike R.C. practice today--epistle from Isaiah; Feast of the Queenship
of the BVM (epistle from Ecclesiasticus); Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist
(epistle from Ezechiel), though I hasten to add that not all weekdays
and feast days have epistles from the OT.
See also (my constant recommendation for questions about the Mass)
Joseph A. Jungmann, _The Mass of the Roman Rite
2 vols., trans. Francis A. Brunner (Westminster, Md.: Christian
Classics, 1986). Jungmann's brief section on the choice of the readings
shows the increasing preference for NT readings for the epistle on
Sundays (where the older liturgies had more readings, some of which
were drawn from the OT) and that weekdays and feastdays were more
varied (vol. 1, pp. 393-97).
As a couple of other posts have indicated, the Psalms would be a
whole nother story.
Pat
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