In today’s Mass I am going to do something I almost never do: preach on the Responsorial Psalm. I almost always preach on the ...

ON September 22 and 23, the United Nations will hold its annual summit of national leaders at the General Assembly hall of ...

Although they really are two distinct ministries, most of the time, in regular parish life, they are merged. Liturgical ...

The responsorial psalm brings with it a similar sentiment from today’s first reading. “I love the Lord,” cries out the psalmist, “because he has heard my voice of supplication” (Ps 116:1).

This, in fact, is the ritual background to the responsorial psalm from the book of Isaiah sung during the Easter Vigil, “With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation” (Is 12:3).

Moments earlier, they had sung the words of the responsorial psalm, “Out of the depths, I cry to you Lord” (Psalm 130) and ...

The Lord bless you from Zion: may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. Blessed are those who fear ...

The first thing that will be most obvious is that there is no reading from the Old Testament, other than the use of the Responsorial Psalm. The “Introduction” to the Lectionary informs us ...

as we have prayed in the Responsorial Psalm, ‘lift the weak from the dust, raise the poor from the rubbish, to make him sit among the princes,’” Pope Francis said in his homily. Priests ...