You can find a listing of readings for this Sunday in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Form, together with links to useful resources on them over at the Divine Lamp. For Sunday the psalms set down are:
Ordinary Form: Psalm 66 (67)
In the Ordinary Form, the Responsorial Psalm is Psalm 66, which will be extremely familar to those who say the Benedictine version of the Office since it is said daily at Lauds. This joyful and uplifting psalm starts and ends by requesting God’s blessing on us. It is the quintessential psalm of the Church’s mission though: it asks for and points to God’s guidance for Governments, and for the spread of God’s word and praise across the whole world:
Deus misereátur nostri, et benedícat nobis: * illúminet vultum suum super nos, et misereátur nostri.
2 Ut cognoscámus in terra viam tuam, * in ómnibus Géntibus salutáre tuum.3 Confiteántur tibi pópuli, Deus: * confiteántur tibi pópuli omnes.
4 Læténtur et exsúltent Gentes: * quóniam júdicas pópulos in æquitáte, et Gentes in terra dírigis.
5 Confiteántur tibi pópuli, Deus, confiteántur tibi pópuli omnes: * terra dedit fructum suum.
6 Benedícat nos Deus, Deus noster, benedícat nos Deus: * et métuant eum omnes fines terræ.
The Douay-Rheims translates this as:
May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may he cause the light of his countenance to shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us.
3 That we may know your way upon earth: your salvation in all nations.
4 Let people confess to you, O God: let all people give praise to you.
5 Let the nations be glad and rejoice: for you judge the people with justice, and direct the nations upon earth.
3 That we may know your way upon earth: your salvation in all nations.
4 Let people confess to you, O God: let all people give praise to you.
5 Let the nations be glad and rejoice: for you judge the people with justice, and direct the nations upon earth.
6 Let the people, O God, confess to you: let all the people give praise to you:
7 The earth has yielded her fruit. May God, our God bless us,
8 may God bless us: and all the ends of the earth fear him
Extraordinary Form
The Epistle this Sunday is 1 Corinthians 10:6-13 (against idolatry, fornication, temptation of God, and murmuring); the Gospel is St Luke 19:41-47, the cleansing of the Temple and prophesy of the destruction of Jerusalem by Our Lord. This week's psalm propers in the Extraordinary Form are from:
Psalm 53:3, 6-7 (Introit)
6 Ecce Deus ádjuvat me, et Dóminus suscéptor est ánimæ meæ:
7. avérte mala inimícis meis, et in veritáte tua dispérde illos, protéctor meus, Dómine.
3. Deus in nómine tuo salvum me fac: et in virtúte tua líbera me.
Or:
For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul.
Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and cut them off in your truth.
Psalm 8:2 (Gradual)
Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me in your strength.
Psalm 8:2 (Gradual)
Dómine, Dóminus noster, quam admirábile est nomen tuum in univérsa terra! Quóniam eleváta est magnificéntia tua super cælos.
O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!
Psalm 58:2 (Alleluia)
Erípe me de inimícis meis, Deus meus: et ab insurgéntibus in me líbera me.
or
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me.
Psalm 18:9-12 (Offertory)
Justitiæ Dómini rectæ, lætificántes corda, et judícia ejus dulcióra super mel et favum: nam et servus tuus custódit ea.
or
The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing hearts: and his justice is sweeter than honey and the honeycomb: for your servant keeps them.
Thank you very much for the link. You and your readers may be interested in the following online books and links relating to the Psalms.
ReplyDeleteComm, on the Psalms Catholic. Introductory material and notes on Ps. 1-40.
Comm. on the Psalms: 1-50 Catholic.
Seven Penitential Psalms, Vol 1 by St John Fisher. Catholic.
Seven Penitential Psalm, Vol 2 by St John Fisher. Catholic.
Translation of the Psalms and Canticles With Commentary. Catholic.
A Comm. on the Psalms From Primitive and Medieval Writers. Anglican. Notes from the fathers and scholastics. Four volumes. May contain some editorial notations hostile to the faith but still very useful and interesting.
Papal Comm. on the Psalms and Canticles. Popes J.P. II and Benedict XVI. On the morning and evening prayer of the Divine Office.
Meditations on the Psalms. Ronald Knox. Anglican. These were written before his conversion.
A Study of the Vulgate Psalter in the Light of the Hebrew Text, Vol. 1. Catholic.
A Study of the Vulgate Psalter in the Light of the Hebrew Text, Vol. 2.
I just noticed that your link to my post is broken. Sorry, that is my fault because instead of merely updating the post I changed the date (time stamp). The post can be found here
ReplyDeleteA couple of more online books:
ReplyDeleteMeditations on the Psalms. Catholic.
The Book of Psalms with Introduction and Notes, Vol 1. Catholic. On Psalm 1-41.
The Book of Psalms With Introduction and Notes, Vol. 2. Catholic. On Psalms 42-89.
The Book of Psalms With Introduction and Notes, Vol. 3. Catholic. On Psalms 90-150.
The Little Office of Our Lady; a Treatise Theoretical, Practical, and Exegetical. Catholic. Includes commentary on the Psalms and Canticles used in the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Thanks again for linking to my blog and my Sunday Resources post.
Thanks Divine Lamp - I've corrected the link.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for your wonderful work in uncovering out of copyright versions put online of these commentaries, and in there are some gems in there such as the Fisher commentary on the penitential psalms (albeit in a difficult to read form, the Ignatius Press modern English version has some advantages!). I'll take a look through and put links in the sidebar to some of them.
That said, my own view is that while many of those nineteenth century/early twentieth century commentaries can contain some useful info if treated with care, most of them are quite dangerous and should be avoided by those without a good grounding in orthodox theology (and even then, I question how much effort they are really worth).
Some of the Anglican commentaries are, as you note, quite hostile to the faith in places. And many of the commentaries around of this period (and later), even by quite famous and acclaimed authors such as CS Lewis (not on your list but still widely read today), do not start from a New Testament perspective. Many show the signs of rationalist and modernist influences.
And even the entirely orthodox commentaries, such as Boylan's, work from the flawed academic assumptions of their time, such as assuming that the claimed authors of some texts is correct and they are patristic rather than later medieval; that the Masoretic Text is accurate and superior to the Septuagint; and that source-critical methods have some validity when it comes to dating psalms etc, all of which have been disproved!