This part of the text includes the books Semiphoras and Schemhamforas (also spelled Schemhamphoras), and Sepher Shimmush Tehillim or Use of the Psalms. This latter text was translated from the Hebrew into German by Gottfried Selig (1722-1795), publisher of the German (Leipzig) periodical ...
Whether it’s the serene chords that move with the bass line at the end of Symphony of Psalms, the keening at the opening of Symphonies of Wind Instruments and everything in between, including the much maligned neo-classical works, it’s all wonderful. As a composer, Stravinsky is there...
Some psalms offer a number of statements about God, one after another. Psalm 23 includes nine, Psalm 103, sixteen, and Psalm 145, twenty. Perhaps that explains why these psalms are among the favorites of many people. Subconsciously we crave reassurance of God’s power, wisdom, and goodness ...
On the one hand, the Messias is a Davidic king who gathers together the dispersed of Israel, and establishes on this earth a kingdom of purity and sinlessness (Psalms of Solomon, xvii). The foreign foe is to be subdued (Assumpt. Moses, c. x) and the wicked are to be judged in ...
God uses people who are willing to take risks. When we are called to step out in faith, let us realize that our Heavenly Father is greater than any problem. “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalms 46:10, 2 Timothy 1:7). “God gave us a spirit not of fear, but of power...
Perhaps that explains why these psalms are among the favorites of many people. Subconsciously we crave reassurance of God’s power, wisdom, and goodness working on our behalf. A lesser-known psalm perhaps, #71, offers seven encouraging descriptors of God: ...
Posted in Bible study, Free Books & Other Resources, Prayer, Psalm 119, Thoughts on the Psalms | Leave a comment How to “Pray the Bible” Posted on February 9, 2025 by Wayne Davies Several biblical practices are indispensable to a mature, joy-filled Christian life, such as: Bible int...
If you sing the Psalms at Mass with the Gregorian tones, you are as close as you can get to praying with Jesus and Mary. They sang the Psalms in tones that have come down to us today in Gregorian Chant. So, the Council isn’t calling us back to some medieval practice, those “horr...
The allegorizing tendencies he inherited from his spiritual father, Ambrose, carry him now and then into extravagances, but more often he rather soars than commentates, and his “In Genesim ad litteram”, and his treatises on the Psalms and on St. John, are works of extraordinary power ...
So how do we foster our pleasure in God? Here are three ways to get us started: LEARN ALL YOU CAN ABOUT GOD—his character and his ways. In January we explored the exercise of slowly reading through the psalms and writing down every mention of God’s character and deeds. As the list...