Praying the Psalms of the Bible

Psalms (or "praises"), are the masterpiece of prayer in the Ancient Will.

2586 The Psalms feed and express the prayer of God's people as

Assembly, on the occasion of the great festivals in Jerusalem and on Saturdays at

synagogues. This prayer is inseparably individual and community; concerns

to those who pray and to all men; ascends from the Holy Land and from the

Diaspora communities, but encompasses all creation; remember the

saving events of the past and extends to the consummation of the

history; remembers the promises of God already made and waits for the Messiah

that will give them final fulfillment. The Psalms, used by Christ in his prayer

and that they find their fulfillment in it, continue to be essential in the

prayer of his Church (cf IGLH 100-109).

2587 The Psalter is the book in which the Word of God becomes the prayer of the

men. In the other books of the Old Testament "the words proclaim the

works "(of God for men)" and explain the mystery of him "(DV 2). In the psalter,

the words of the psalmist express, singing them for God, his works of salvation.

The same Spirit inspires the work of God and the response of man. Christ will unite

both. In him, the psalms never cease to teach us to pray. Prayer for release

2588 The multiple expressions of prayer of the Psalms are incarnated at the same time in

the liturgy of the temple and in the heart of man. Whether it's a hymn

like a prayer of helplessness or thanksgiving, of individual supplication

or community, royal song or pilgrimage or wisdom meditation, the

Psalms are the mirror of the wonders of God in the history of his people and in the

human situations lived by the psalmist. A psalm may reflect a

past event, but it is of such sobriety that you can pray

truly for men of all conditions and of all time. See Bible verses of happiness

 There are constant traits in the Psalms: the simplicity and the

spontaneity of prayer, the desire of God himself through his creation, and

with all that is good in it, the uncomfortable situation of the believer who, in

his preferential love for the Lord, he is faced with a host of enemies and

temptations; and that, pending what the faithful God will do, he maintains the certainty of the

love of God, and surrender to the divine will. The prayer of the psalms is

always praise-oriented; therefore, it corresponds well to the set of

psalms the title of "The Praises." Gathered the Psalms according to the cult of

the Assembly, are an invitation to prayer and a response to it: "Hallelu-Ya!"

(Hallelujah), "Praise the Lord!"

What is better than a Psalm? That is why David says very well: "Praise the Lord,

because it is good to chant: to our God sweet and beautiful praise! "And it is true.

Because the psalm is a blessing pronounced by the people, praise of God for the

Assembly, acclamation of all, word spoken by the universe, voice of the Church,

melo Goddess profession of faith, ... (Saint Ambrose, Ps. 1, 9).