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

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That is strictly prohibited. Do you feel comfortable talking to your pastor about this, sharing with him that this disturbs you for a number of reasons, and asking him to follow the liturgical rubrics as outlined in the GIRM?

Do you feel comfortable petitioning your diocesan chancery office if your pastor refuses to correct this issue?

If the answers are “no” then move to another parish. If “yes” I hope you will find it worthwhile to get this corrected.
 
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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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In fact sometimes the psalm specified in the missal isn’t a psalm at all but instead is an OT or NT canticle such on Trinity Sunday or the third Sunday of Advent.

The place to get a fuller dose of the psalms is the Liturgy of the Hours. Some have had imprecatory verses removed and three are missing, but it is still more complete than the Mass lectionary.

In the old rite, there were psalm verses but they were more scattered throughout the propers, a verse or two here and there, and thus the psalms were even more truncated than in the OF Mass.
 
Sounds like they are using something totally different…

If they are, this would be a significant liturgical abuse.
 
There was no Psalm or other bible reading it was someone’s personal song instead.
 
I meant they didnt replace the Psalm with a different bible reading. Usccb has all the possible readings and it included then psalm reading.
 
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Actually replacing the reading of the Psalm with non-scriptural music.
 
I asked if it was somewhere else in the Bible and the plaster said no, it was something that someone else write not in the Bible as a substitute for the Psalm.
 
I did talk to my pastor about it. He said trust him it is ok. I very clearly asked if there is a traditional Sunday Mass at the Chruch that uses the Psalm readings and he said no.
 
If it turns out to be a ‘one-off’ happening, then it stay and see how things go.

But if it is as you say and it was the psalm being replaced by something it tjat it shouldn’t be replaced with. If it is an established or frequent thing, it could be because the pastor thinks it is the right thing to do (regardless of what the rubrics may say). If that is the case then you may have a very uphill task convincing him otherwise. In such cases you may (in my opinion) be best just moving to another parish if you can.

Good luck.
 
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tifischer said:
Usccb says it is most of the Bible.
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I believe when they say ever three years most of the Bible is covered, they are including Daily Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.

If you attend Mass every day and at least do the daily readings for the Liturgy of the Hours, you will have covered a huge part of the Bible in three years.
 
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Ugh, I hate when people do that.

I write my own Psalms because otherwise people like to get lazy and substitute hymns instead… 😡
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When a parish buys missals for the pews, why can’t the music ministry simply stick to the Palm that is in the missals?

It drives me crazy when they substitute because half the time I can’t understand what the cantor is singing, even for the general response; and often they either pick a palm from another book or don’t tell us which page. This happens a lot at one near by parish I attend often due to an evening mass they have.

Luckily, at my parish, they mostly always stick to the Psalm in the missal, and if they do substitute, they tell us where to find the psalm they are using.
 
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tifischer said:
I did talk to my pastor about it. He said trust him it is ok. I very clearly asked if there is a traditional Sunday Mass at the Chruch that uses the Psalm readings and he said no.
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If this is a regular occurrence, I would (1) send a letter to your priest (signed or unsigned) and if that still doesn’t do anything, I would suggest sending a letter (signed) to your Bishop.
 
No it happened every time I went …so then I asked if they always do that and the pastor said on the weekends that’s how they always do it.
 
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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.
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If that’s the case, you really ought to write a letter to your local Bishop about this. This is completely wrong and forbidden. It’s explicitly stated in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) that personal songs (or any other songs) can NOT be sung in place of a psalm. A psalm must be sung or said. It doesn’t have to always be the psalm that’s printed in the missalette or missal. They’re allowed to sing an alternate psalm instead, but it must be a psalm and it must be from an approved translation.

I would seek out an alternate church to attend Mass that doesn’t so egregiously celebrate the Mass in a manner that’s not allowed by the Catholic Church.
 
He did include the responsiral Psalm but omitted the rest and inserted their own song. I don’t recall how accurate the responsorial was.
 
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tifischer said:
He did include the responsiral Psalm but omitted the rest and inserted their own song. I don’t recall how accurate the responsorial was.
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This is sounding weirder and weirder (not your fault). It really bothers me when musicians use Mass as their own personal concert. 😦
 
No I don’t think anyone is doing anything wrong I just try to teach people how to detach from the world. Being detached means to “Live in the world, not of it” we are not moved by what life tries to move us with. Being detached doesn’t mean to not have questions.
 
It’s not wrong to have emotions… as long as you are detached from them. Everything in this world needs to be detached from, because you are detaching from the world. Only detaching from certain things isn’t very useful because you’ll still be attached to other things. Saint John of the cross tried to get this message across to Saint Teresa of Avila By giving her the smallest peice of the Eucharist XD. This is why mysticism needs to be revived in the church. Without mysticism nobody understands their own psyche and subconscious.
 
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