The psalms deserve a bit more, so before we go to the second reading next week, some more on the psalms. On Sundays, remember ...

The Book of Psalms provides most of the biblical texts for the response to the first reading. Though called the ...

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We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...