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Date | Liturgy | Psalm | Gospel Acc |
Nov 29 (2020) |
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT Psalm 80 | tlca0001 | tlca01 |
Dec 6 |
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT Psalm 85 | tlca0002 | tlca07 |
Dec 8 |
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Psalm 98 | tlca0003 | tlca05 |
Dec 12 |
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE Judith 13 | tlca0004 | tlca01 |
Dec 13 |
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT Luke 1 | tlca0005 | tlca07 |
Dec 20 |
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT Psalm 89 | tlca0006 | tlca05 |
Dec 24 |
THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD (CHRISTMAS): At the Vigil Mass Psalm 89 | tlca0007 | tlca07 |
Dec 25 |
THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD (CHRISTMAS): At the Mass During the Night Psalm 96 | tlca0008 | tlca07 |
Dec 25 |
THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD (CHRISTMAS): At the Mass at Dawn Psalm 97 | tlca0009 | tlca07 |
Dec 25 |
THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD (CHRISTMAS): At the Mass During the Day Psalm 98 | tlca0010 | tlca06 |
Dec 27 |
THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH Psalm 105 | tlca0011 | tlca07 |
Jan 1 |
SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD Psalm 67 | tlca0012 | tlca07 |
Jan 3 |
THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD Psalm 72 | tlca0013 | tlca07 |
Jan 10 |
THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD Isaiah 12 | tlca0014 | tlca06 |
Jan 17 |
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 40 | tlca0015 | tlca06 |
Jan 24 |
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 25 | tlca0016 | tlca07 |
Jan 31 |
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 95 | tlca0020 | tlca06 |
Feb 7 |
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 147 | tlca0017 | tlca05 |
Feb 14 |
SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 32 | tlca0018 | tlca05 |
Feb 17 |
ASH WEDNESDAY Psalm 51 | tlca0019 | tlca09 |
Feb 21 |
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT Psalm 25 | coming soon | coming soon |
Feb 28 |
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT Psalm 116 | ||
Mar 7 |
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT Psalm 19 | ||
Mar 7 |
RCIA OPTION: THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT Psalm 95 | ||
Mar 14 |
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT Psalm 137 | ||
Mar 14 |
RCIA OPTION: FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT Psalm 23 | ||
Mar 21 |
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT Psalm 51 | ||
Mar 21 |
RCIA OPTION: FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT Psalm 130 | ||
Mar 28 |
PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD Psalm 22 | ||
Apr 1 |
THURSDAY OF THE LORD'S SUPPER (Holy Thursday): At the Evening Mass Psalm 116 | ||
Apr 2 |
FRIDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD (Good Friday) Psalm 31 | ||
Apr 3 |
THE EASTER VIGIL IN THE HOLY NIGHT Psalm 104 Psalm 33 Psalm 16 Exodus 15 Psalm 30 Isaiah 12 Psalm 19 Psalm 42 Isaiah 12 Psalm 51 Psalm 118 | ||
Apr 4 |
EASTER SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD: At the Mass During the Day Psalm 118 | ||
Apr 11 |
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (or Sunday of Divine Mercy) Psalm 118 | ||
Apr 18 |
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER Psalm 4 | ||
Apr 25 |
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Psalm 118 | ||
May 2 |
FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Psalm 22 | ||
May 9 |
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Psalm 22 | ||
May 13 or 16 |
THE ASCENSION OF EASTER Psalm 47 | ||
May 16 |
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Psalm 103 | ||
May 22 |
PENTECOST SUNDAY: At the Vigil Mass (Extended Form) Psalm 33 Daniel 3 Psalm 19 Psalm 107 Psalm 104 | ||
May 23 |
PENTECOST SUNDAY: At the Mass During the Day Psalm 104 | ||
May 30 |
THE MOST HOLY TRINITY Psalm 33 | ||
Jun 6 |
THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (Corpus Christi) Psalm 116 | ||
Jun 13 |
11th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 92 | ||
Jun 20 |
12th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 107 | ||
Jun 27 |
13th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 30 | ||
Jul 4 |
14th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 123 | ||
Jul 11 |
15th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 85 | ||
Jul 18 |
16th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 23 | ||
Jul 25 |
17th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 145 | ||
Aug 1 |
18th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 78 | ||
Aug 8 |
19th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 34 | ||
Aug 14 |
ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY: At the Vigil Mass Psalm 132 | ||
Aug 15 |
ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY: At the Mass During the Day Psalm 45 | ||
Aug 22 |
21st SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 34 | ||
Aug 29 |
22nd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 15 | ||
Sep 5 |
23rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 146 | ||
Sep 12 |
24th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 116 | ||
Sep 19 |
25th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 54 | ||
Sep 26 |
26th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 19 | ||
Oct 3 |
27th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 128 | ||
Oct 10 |
28th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 90 | ||
Oct 17 |
29th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 33 | ||
Oct 24 |
30th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 126 | ||
Oct 31 |
31st SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 18 | ||
Nov 1 |
ALL SAINTS Psalm 24 | ||
Nov 7 |
32nd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 146 | ||
Nov 14 |
33rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Psalm 16 | ||
Nov 21 |
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE Psalm 93 | ||
Nov 25 |
THANKSGIVING DAY Psalm 113 |
Some History
The Psalms have always been an important part of Catholic liturgy. The Liturgy of the Hours is centered on chanting or recitation of the Psalms, using fixed melodic formulas known as psalm tones. Early Catholics employed the Psalms widely in their individual prayers also; however, as knowledge of Latin (the language of the Roman Rite) became uncommon, this practice ceased among the unlearned. However, until the end of the Middle Ages, it was not unknown for the laity to join in the singing of the Little Office of Our Lady, which was a shortened version of the Liturgy of the Hours providing a fixed daily cycle of twenty-five psalms to be recited, and nine other psalms divided across Matins.
The work of Bishop Richard Challoner in providing devotional materials in English meant that many of the psalms were familiar to English-speaking Catholics from the eighteenth century onwards. Challoner translated the entirety of the Lady Office into English, as well as Sunday Vespers and daily Compline. He also provided other individual Psalms such as 129/130 for prayer in his devotional books. Challoner is also noted for revising the Douay-Rheims Bible, and the translations he used in his devotional books are taken from this work.
Until the Second Vatican Council the Psalms were either recited on a one-week or, less commonly (as in the case of Ambrosian rite), two-week cycle. Different one-week schemata were employed: most secular clergy followed the Roman distribution, while Monastic Houses almost universally followed that of St Benedict, with only a few congregations (such as the Benedictines of St Maur) following individualistic arrangements. The Breviaryintroduced in 1974 distributed the psalms over a four-week cycle. Monastic usage varies widely. Some use the four-week cycle of the secular clergy, many retain a one-week cycle, either following St Benedict's scheme or another of their own devising, while others opt for some other arrangement.
Official approval was also given to other arrangements (see "Short" Breviaries in the 20th and early 21st century America for an in-progress study) by which the complete Psalter is recited in a one-week or two-week cycle. These arrangements are used principally by Catholic contemplative religious orders, such as that of the Trappists (see for example the Divine Office schedule at New Melleray Abbey).
The General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours, 122 sanctions three modes of singing/recitation for the Psalms:
- directly (all sing or recite the entire psalm);
- antiphonally (two choirs or sections of the congregation sing or recite alternate verses or strophes); and
- responsorially (the cantor or choir sings or recites the verses while the congregation sings or recites a given response after each verse).
Of these three the antiphonal mode is the most widely followed.
Over the centuries, the use of complete Psalms in the liturgy declined. After the Second Vatican Council (which also permitted the use of vernacular languages in the liturgy), longer psalm texts were reintroduced into the Mass, during the readings. The revision of the Roman Missal after the Second Vatican Council reintroduced the singing or recitation of a more substantial section of a Psalm, in some cases an entire Psalm, after the first Reading from Scripture. This Psalm, called the Responsorial Psalm, is usually sung or recited responsorially, although the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 61 permits direct recitation.
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