{"product_id":"sacd276-psallite-sapienter-sing-psalms-with-understanding","title":"Psallite Sapienter (Sing Psalms with Understanding)","description":"Sing Psalms with Understanding (Psallite sapienter)\r\n“Sing Psalms with understanding”: this invitation from Psalm 46 (47) has\r\nbeen and continues to be one of the deepest desires of a monk — who, by following Saint\r\nBenedict’s counsel to prefer nothing to the Opus Dei, that is, to prayer, longs to live it with\r\nwisdom and beauty, in truth and depth.\r\nThe Psalm constitutes the predominant part of the Liturgy of the Hours in\r\na monastery and throughout the whole Church. Their verses often resound in the antiphons\r\nof the Missal; they are the Word of God most frequently listened to, meditated\r\nupon, and prayed each day.\r\nA great Jewish intellectual of the last century, André Chouraqui — a scholar\r\nand translator of the Scriptures (he even translated the New Testament) — wrote of the\r\nPsalter:\r\n“We are born with this book in our very entrails. A little book, one hundred and fifty poems, one hundred and fifty steps erected between death and life; one hundred\r\nand fifty mirrors of our rebellions and our fidelities, our agonies and our resurrections.\r\nMore than a book, a living being that speaks — that speaks to you — that suffers, groans,\r\nand dies, that rises and sings on the threshold of eternity — and it takes you, and carries\r\nyou and the ages of ages, from beginning to end…”\r\nMany centuries earlier, another of the greatest commentators on the Psalter,\r\nAugustine of Hippo, could exclaim: psalterium meum gaudium meum — the Psalter\r\nis my joy!\r\n“We are born with this book in our entrails,” a book that is “my joy”: such an\r\nexperience — existential even before being spiritual or religious — could not help but be\r\nexpressed in musical notes and in song. This has been true since ancient times, and still\r\ntoday, in our Bibles, at the beginning of many psalms there are brief notes indicating the\r\nmelodies or instruments by which the psalm was to be accompanied or sung.\r\nIn the Western Christian liturgy, it was above all the Gregorian tradition\r\nthat gave musical form to the prayer of the psalms and to other liturgical texts, doing so\r\nwith great wisdom — obedient to the imperative of Psalm 46, psallite sapienter — not\r\nimposing itself upon or over shadowing the words of the Psalter, but rather highlighting\r\nand amplifying the richness already contained within them.\r\nIn his Rule, Saint Benedict offers a precious indication on how the psalms\r\nhould be prayed: “Let us so sing the psalms that our mind may be in harmony with our\r\nvoice” (RB 19:7). It is not merely a question of paying attention to what is said, but\r\nmore profoundly of finding a harmonious accord between the heart and what the lips\r\npronounce.","brand":"Fonè","offers":[{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56742987104580,"sku":"SACD276-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57344808255812,"sku":"SACD276-5","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/SACD276.jpg?v=1778512128","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/sacd276-psallite-sapienter-sing-psalms-with-understanding","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}