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Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

Singing vs. Speaking the Psalms

Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Why do we sing the psalms in Mass? In this episode, Fr. Josh explains why the psalms are most commonly sung and how singing can actually benefit our prayer. He also dives into the life of the author of the psalms: King David.

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“Have mercy on me God in your kindness and blot out my offense.” Psalm 51

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0:00.0

What's up and welcome to Ask Father Josh.

0:06.4

The question and answer podcast why get to listen to your questions, pray with them and

0:10.4

hopefully respond in such a way that it's helpful for you to become a saint in your walk

0:13.6

toward eternity.

0:14.6

You can ask me anything and everything about our Catholic faith from morality to spirituality,

0:19.7

whether it's a question about everyday life or what we believe as Catholics.

0:23.2

I'm here to help you find answers.

0:25.2

If you are at first time listening, please be sure to follow the podcast.

0:28.9

You can also hit me up with your own questions and comments at www.assitiapress.com slash

0:34.7

ask Father Josh.

0:36.8

Today's show we are going to be talking about the Psalms and why do we sing the Psalms

0:45.2

at Matt As?

0:46.2

Why do we sing the Psalms at Mass?

0:48.2

The response order is something like why can't we just say it whenever we pray.

0:52.2

We're also going to have a saint for the show that would be connected to the Psalms and

0:57.1

that's going to be really cool.

0:58.8

Before we get into that saint of the show and why we sing the Psalms at Mass, I'm going

1:03.6

to share with you a glory story.

1:30.9

So my glory story is this God multiplied.

1:42.2

Y'all so we had Christmas Mass.

1:44.3

It's a new year.

1:45.3

We're in January now.

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