Article 1 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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The Psalms both nourished and expressed the prayer of the People of God
gathered during the great feasts at Jerusalem and each Sabbath in the
synagogues. Their prayer is inseparably personal and communal; it concerns both
those who are praying and all men. the Psalms arose from the communities of the
Holy Land and the Diaspora, but embrace all creation. Their prayer recalls the
saving events of the past, yet extends into the future, even to the end of
history; it commemorates the promises God has already kept, and awaits the Messiah
who will fulfill them definitively. Prayed by Christ and fulfilled in him, the
Psalms remain essential to the prayer of the Church.³⁸

PART FOUR: CHRISTIAN PRAYER