Published: 2023-12-22

Psalms in ordo paenitentiae

Jarosław Superson
Liturgia Sacra. Liturgia - Musica - Ars
Section: Liturgia
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/ls.5291

(a historical-theological study)

Abstract

The book of Psalms in the Old Testament is a set of inspired religious songs embracing a rich variety of topics through which the Roman-Catholic Church offers to God a sacrifice of glory. Yet the mission of the Church is to share God's reconciliation with all people of the world. The following article indicates the presence of psalmodic verses or the entire psalms in three contexts and their texts: in judaistic rites of penance, in the Pauline doctrine of justification and in the celebration of the sacrament of penance in the West. The fruit of this investigation may be the conclusion, that Scriptura crescit cum orante not only during the reading of the Scriptures, but mainly as its actualization and valorization while celebrating the sacrament of penance. Such a view inclines for a reflection, whether sine psalmis nulla paenitentia?

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Superson, J. (2023). Psalms in ordo paenitentiae : (a historical-theological study). Liturgia Sacra. Liturgia - Musica - Ars, 62(2), 85–100. https://doi.org/10.25167/ls.5291

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