Jeremy Thompson

Tag: Responsorial Psalm

  • Love Your Neighbor – A Little Lectionary Editing

    “Love Your Neighbor” that’s what your supposed to do, right?  Well, at least that is what Jesus said in in Matthew 22:38 repeating a line from Leviticus 19:18.  But, what about those other voices in scripture?  You know the ones that say not so nice things about neighbors or wish not so nice things upon…

  • Psalm 34 Listening

    Psalm 34 has inspired, in my opinion, some of the best Psalmody in modern times within my own church tradition.  Below I’ve posted a YouTube video of one of my favorite responses based on Psalm 34, “The Cry of the Poor,” though this is not the greatest rendition. The Cry of the Poor (Psalm 34)…

  • Psalm 98 and Assonance

    I glanced at the lectionary readings earlier in the day, but spent a little more time with them tonight, especially the response, which was Psalm 98.  I wanted to point out one feature of verse 1 in particular that struck me, and this is one of the types of things I think we miss in…

  • You Break the Teeth of the Wicked

    That is a phrase that is left out of the Responsorial Psalm for today.  Psalm 3 consists of 8 verses in the Hebrew text.  The response for today uses every verse in the text except for one.  Why leave out one verse?  Because it reads: Rise up, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! For…

  • This Psalmist Must Have Never Had Children

    Today’s responsorial Psalm blew my mind, but not in some super spiritual way.  Psalm 131 reads as follows: 1 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted…

  • Listening for Psalm 24

    Here is some listening for today’s responsorial Psalm, which was Psalm 24.  Many people may not realize that the song “Give us Clean Hands” is taken almost entirely from this text:

  • Video Illustration for Psalm 124

    Psalm 124:7 “We escaped with our lives like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare was broken and we escaped.” Thought he had one … but it got away.