So bummed today...no Psalm reading in Mass : (

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My children and I started a new Church last Nov. We have been going back and forth between our old Church and this one as we transition. I love the priests, homilies and music…but they don’t read/sing the Psalms. They sing something else personally inspired. : (

When I converted one of the things that I have loved is that I get that enrichment of all these Bible stories and I have confidence that if I attend every Sunday then I will have read the entire Bible every 3 years. And I love how so often the stories including the Psalms all related to each other. God have mercy, my spirit grieves. I cannot image how someone could think that their personal inspiration is better for us than God’s divine inspiration.
 
Yes, it is more of a drive and the priest at our old Church didn’t like to talk to me or answer my questions…he does not seem to care about us. The other priest barely speaks English.
 
tifischer said:
When I converted one of the things that I have loved is that I get that enrichment of all these Bible stories and I have confidence that if I attend every Sunday then I will have read the entire Bible every 3 years. .
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No, I’m afraid not. You will hear most of it, but not all, so you might like to consider reading it at home as well.
 
Hearing the Word proclaimed at Mass is important, but leaving your entire exposure, study, pondering, praying, and living out the word in the confines of the Mass is not enough. Read, study, ponder, pray, and live the Word daily, on you own, in addition.
 
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Usccb says that the readings should include the Psalms.
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The Psalms don’t readily lend themselves to this kind of statistical analysis. In Protestant worship it’s common for the congregation to sing a whole Psalm, as printed in the Bible, even the very long ones (link below). In Catholic worship, each Psalm is usually shortened to something like six to eight verses at the outside, usually less, and often paraphrased as well. You would have to go through all 150 Psalms, line by line or almost word by word, to see how much of each one is actually included in the Missal.

 
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tifischer said:
When I converted one of the things that I have loved is that I get that enrichment of all these Bible stories and I have confidence that if I attend every Sunday then I will have read the entire Bible every 3 years.
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This is a sort of Catholic urban legend.

If you attend Mass every Sunday for 3 years you will hear around 13% of the “entire Bible”.
 
I hear it sung all the time but I bring the usccb because they don’t offer the readings…so I noticed that when it got the Psalm i could not longer follow what they were saying. I tried to see if it was similar maybe another translation but it was way off. So I thought it must be another Psalm but then I asked the pastor and it is not the Psalm…it is someone’s personal song that they use as a substitute for the actual Psalm readings.
 
Different settings of the Psalm may be used, many weeks there are alternates. People can compose their own settings, so, unless this was something completely random, I’d not fret it.
 
It’s called detachment. So you don’t get hung up over pety things. Not to be rude but if we practice spirituality we stay watchfull in our heart so we don’t let thoughts like the ones you listed penetrate us, therefore we wouldn’t get “bummed” over simple stuff. Part of the goal in spirituality is to become something better than just a reacting mechanism.
 
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It’s called detachment. So you don’t get hung up over pety things. Not to be rude but if we practice spirituality we stay watchfull in our heart so we don’t let thoughts like the ones you listed penetrate us, therefore we wouldn’t get “bummed” over simple stuff. Part of the goal in spirituality is to become something better than just a reacting mechanism.
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You could say that about nearly every OP in the Liturgy & Sacraments forum. Are people wrong to ask questions about the orans position, about receiving on the tongue or in the hand, and about so many other topics that are constantly debated here?
 
U seem confused at to what detachment is. Jesus was very compassionate and wept. Because I am compassionate about our Churches reverence for God’s word or desire to hear the Psalm in our daily readings as intended by the Church is not a bad thing…it’s compassionate toward my faith. Detachment is for worldly pleasures over Godly ones including faithfulness and mercy to those who have lost loved ones, persecuted, poor, hurt…
 
Sometimes there are up to three different readings the priest can choose from depending if there are certain saints to celebrate or solemnities or ordinary time.

The reader for the first reading maybe wasn’t told to read/sing the Psalm and the priest/deacon didn’t notice but continued with the gospel reading as they are used to.

The Psalm for the day could also be Exodus 15, 1 King 29, Isiah 12, Dan B, Luke 1, Phil 2, Rev 19.
 
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