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A Path to Holiness

3/15/2018

 
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The psalms, according to Fr. Garrigou-LaGrange, are a school of contemplation, of self-oblation, and of holiness. These fruits grow and flourish when the psalmody prayed has both body - harmoniously arranged structure bringing the tranquility of order - and soul, the interior devotion rising toward God like a flame. The very parallelism of the psalms when chanted or prayed in the tradition of the Church, two or three phrases punctuated with a pause in the middle, gives a natural body to the prayer. This harmonious body is disrupted by undue haste, depriving the spirit its ability to rest in God. Our community takes great care to preserve this body in our prayer so that soul may flourish. 
St. Ambrose compares liturgically prayed psalms to the peaceful breaking of waves upon the shore:
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What is that melodic sound of the waves if not the melody of the people...as the whole people unite in prayer, there is a whisper of receding waves; the echo of the psalms when sung in responsive harmony... is like the sound of breaking waves. Wherefore, what need I say of this water other than it washes away sin and that the salutary breath of the Holy Spirit is found in it?
Prayed with gentle discipline, the psalms gradually act upon the soul, cleansing it of what is not of God, pointing it to Him and all this is of Him.  Dom Mark Kirby writes of praying the psalms, ​
...to the recently wounded [soul] it brings speedy improvement; the diseased it treats, and the unharmed it preserves. On the whole, it effaces as far as possible, the passions, which subtly exercise dominion over souls during the lifetime of man, and it does this with a certain orderly persuasion and sweetness which produces sound thoughts.
Each period of liturgical prayer like an oasis which refreshes and strengthens us for His continued service. It is a school of all the virtues, particularly fostering charity, the queen of virtues. Our communal prayer is our path to contemplative prayer, the greatest service we render the world, and the source of our apostolic fruitfulness. This prayer is particularly nourished by the psalms, those great prayers of the Church with express every human emotion, reflect every human thought, and continually direct us to God.
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