Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 473 – Part III.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) The Psalms, along with the Our Father, are part of the
Church’s great treasury of prayers. In them the praise of God is sung in an ageless
way.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC
2589 a) Certain
constant characteristics appear throughout the Psalms: simplicity and
spontaneity of prayer; the desire for God himself through and with all that is
good in his creation; the distraught situation of the believer who, in his
preferential love for the Lord, is exposed to a host of enemies and
temptations, but who waits upon what the faithful God will do, in the certitude
of his love and in submission to his will. The prayer of the psalms is always
sustained by praise; that is why the title of this collection as handed down to
us is so fitting: "The Praises." Collected for the assembly's
worship, the Psalter both sounds the call to prayer and sings the response to
that call: Hallelu-Yah!
(“Alleluia"), "Praise the Lord!"
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) There are 150 Psalms in the Old Testament.
They are a collection of songs and prayers, some of them several thousand years
old, which are still prayed today in the Church community - in the socalled
Liturgy of the Hours. The Psalms are among the most beautiful texts in world
literature and move even modern readers immediately by their spiritual power.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC
2589 b) What is more
pleasing than a psalm? David expresses it well: "Praise the Lord, for a
psalm is good: let there be praise of our God with gladness and grace!"
Yes, a psalm is a blessing on the lips of the people, praise of God, the
assembly's homage, a general acclamation, a word that speaks for all, the voice
of the Church, a confession of faith in song (St. Ambrose, In Psalmum 1 enarratio, 1, 9: PL 14, 924; LH, Saturday, wk 10, OR).
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