Sentences with phrase «reciting psalm»

Though I grew up reciting Psalm 23 and Psalm 139, I made it through youth group without ever reading or understanding the painful Psalms.
He was reciting Psalm 22.
It is true the Church continues to have those of her children who say the Divine Office recite psalm 30 every week, and during Advent the following antiphon.
Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (458 - 471 A.D.), would not ordain anyone who had not been diligently reciting the psalms; the second Council of Nicaea (587 A. D.) concluded that no one was to be consecrated bishop unless he knew the Psalter thoroughly; and the eighth Council of Toledo (653 A.D.) ordered that no one be promoted to any ecclesiastical position who did not know perfectly the entire collection (Ross, 27).
He recited Psalm 46.
Finally, a few days into my funk, one of my housemates recited Psalm 86:5 as our verse before our evening meal: «For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.»
«I have insisted that on his honour the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, ought to have resigned by now like I said the last time, he should be reciting the psalms and asking for mercy.

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All Christians, I am sure, have favourite passages from the psalms which they recite to themselves from time to time.
Similarly, in the story of David and Goliath, when David heads out to face the giant Philistine foe, he clutches his sling and quietly begins to recite the 23rd Psalm, «Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil.»
How loudly I began to cry out to you in those psalms, how I was inflamed by them with love for you and fired to recite them to the whole world, were I able.
She was led away in handcuffs, reciting the 23rd Psalm.
Jesus recited the 22nd psalm which was a whisper a 1000 years before he walked this earth.
Cindy, would you care to recite for us Psalm 14:1 from your «Good Book»?
By reciting the 23rd Psalm we ascribe to Jesus prerogatives that the state normally takes on for itself.
Therefore, reciting the 23rd Psalm is both a reminder and a confession.
Fr McBrien is particularly scathing about the rosary which he explains was the popular equivalent of the 150 psalms recited by the clergy «The laity can pray and read each of the psalms on their own, without any need to substitute Our Fathers or Hail Mary's in repetitive fashion».
One of my favorites is Psalm 126, recited during the grace after the main Sabbath meal.
Growing up my nightly bedtime routine consisted of pulling down my black leather King James Bible and turning to Psalm 23 — I had heard that Psalm recited at several funerals, so...
Thus Psalm 50 would appear to have had its liturgical cultic setting in the repeated ceremony of covenant renewal; and Psalm 24 has long been recognized as a liturgy recited at the temple doors antiphonally between the temple personnel within and the procession of newly arrived pilgrims without.
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