Quotes About Psalter

The Psalter occupied an enormous place in the life of our Lord. He used it as His prayer book in the Jewish synagogue during His whole life. It was His songbook in all the temple festivals. He sang from it after the Last Supper.

The Psalter occupies a unique place in the Holy Scriptures. It is God's Word and, with few exceptions, the prayer of men as well. How are we to understand this? How can God's Word be at the same time prayer to God?

The Queen of Heaven informed him: "Wonder not that until now you [St. Dominic] have obtained so little fruit by your labors; you have spent them on a barren soil, not yet watered with the dew of divine grace. When God willed to renew the face of the earth, he began by sending down on it the fertilizing rain of the Angelic Salutation. Therefore, preach my Psalter."1

There are people whom even childrens literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

The Psalter is responsible for creating the prayers in the church. It remains the core of all Christian prayers. Whenever we pray with psalms, we are joining the universal Church in prayer.

Pope had made it illegal across large parts of Europe for lay persons to possess any of the books of the Old and New Testament "with the exception of the Psalter, the Breviary and the Book of Hours of the Blessed Virgin.

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

Finally, Calvin's exposition of the Psalter shows that predestination is not so much a distinction between merit and grace as one between man and God, human honor and God's honor.

The Psalter forms the great epic poem of the creator and covenant God who will at the last visit and redeem his people and, with them, his whole creation.

When we pray the Psalter, then, the words are not spoken in our own voice. We put on, rather, what St. Paul called "the mind of Christ.