The words of our heart

Editorial Staff

I really appreciated that in last issues you highlighted some psalms to pray ad reflect, affirming that the Psalter represents “the book of affections” and through it «one can give voice to every feeling and emotion of the human heart». But I would like to ask you this: if the Psalms are really the breath of our senses and feelings, why in our parish communities have we moved away from this treasure? Why are we not taught to pray the psalms in our families? Jesus himself knew, meditated and prayed them: knowing the Psalms would probably help us to better understand his style and his actions. M.T. Certainly the Lord Jesus prayed the Psalms and for this reason the Church has never stopped using the Psalter for her prayer, both communal and personal. In reality, in every Eucharist as in all the other moments of prayer there is always a psalm. Think, for example, of the responsorial psalm and the psalms with which the dying are accompanied and the dead are buried. In all religious communities and even in some parishes the Psalms in the Liturgy of the Hours are prayed. Perhaps what is sometimes missing is letting oneself truly…