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\u201cThe treasures of the bible are to be opened up more lavishly, so that richer fare may be provided for the faithful at the table of God’s word.\u201d (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 51)<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in my August 30 post on hymns and their texts<\/a>, one of the great blessings of my life was the five or six years I worked with the scripture\/patristics scholar and composer Fr. Lucien Deiss. Since Fr. Deiss had been selected by Pope Paul VI to coordinate the work on the psalter for the post-conciliar Lectionary, I wanted to get his perspective on the use of the proper vs. common responsorial psalm at Sunday Mass. He informed me that the common psalms were really intended for places with widespread illiteracy, or impoverished places without access to printed resources for the Eucharist. He went on to say that it would be an \u201cunnecessary impoverishment\u201d for most places in the U.S. to use the common psalms during the Liturgy of the Word. I asked him if he used the term \u201cimpoverishment\u201d because CSL 51 calls upon us to open up the treasures of scripture. He nodded his head and said \u201cprecisely\u201d (a favorite term of his), making me feel the same way I did in second grade whenever I\u2019d get a gold star from Sister Vita.<\/p>\n

We discussed the topic a bit further. I told him of a viewpoint in the U.S. that the use of the common psalms was preferable, because over the course of time the assembly would get familiar with the refrain, and sing it more securely. Some noted liturgical authors had proposed that an assembly really needed only a dozen or so responsorial psalms in their repertoire. He wondered why we would want to ignore the other 138 psalms, and all the richness and wisdom they contained. I also wondered\u2014and have continued to wonder\u2014the same thing.<\/p>\n

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\nI am a bit suspicious that there is a way in which some of those authors didn\u2019t think of the psalm as truly being scripture. Perhaps intellectually or logically they did, but it could have been that, due to its responsorial format or the fact that it was set to music and sung, they viewed it as somehow other than or lesser than \u201creal\u201d scripture. My suspicion, I\u2019ll admit, had been amplified when two music-disliking members of liturgy committees in two different parishes said they\u2019d prefer to have \u201cmore scripture\u201d at Mass and get rid of the psalm.<\/p>\n

For any number of years now, I\u2019ve thought of the responsorial psalm less and less as a response to the first reading, and more as the second of four proclamations of scripture. Therefore, it seems logical to me that we treat it as we treat the other three proclamations. We wouldn\u2019t read the same prophetic passage for an entire season, or apostolic letter, or gospel pericope, though doing so would certainly place those passages more deeply in the minds and hearts of the faithful.<\/p>\n

Of course, it can be argued that the assembly\u2019s familiarity acquired by singing the response to a seasonal psalm week after week is another way to approach CSL\u2019s \u201copening up\u201d of the scripture\u2014the quality vs. quantity approach. In this regard I do have an appreciation for a third option that the Lectionary provides: to utilize a common refrain but have the proper psalm verses proclaimed. This seems to me to be an approach that could be effective in the aforementioned places where illiteracy and\/or poverty are an issue. However, to refer back to my August 30th hymn text post, it is different\u2014physiologically, neurologically, and spiritually\u2014when the assembly actually has the words of the proper refrain on their lips, in their mouths, articulated by their tongues, fueled by their lungs, week by week. In the long run, it also strikes me that \u201cunnecessary impoverishment\u201d can lead to liturgical laziness on the part of the assembly.<\/p>\n

Whether or not Fr. Deiss coined the term \u201cunnecessary impoverishment\u201d in our conversation that day, or if he\u2019d used it before, or knew it from another context (though I\u2019ve not encountered it anywhere else) is not known to me. It has been a good guiding principle for me in my life as a liturgical musician (since CSL also refers to sacred music itself as a \u201ctreasure\u201d), so I can strive to avoid unnecessary impoverishments, and open up the riches of God\u2019s grace more lavishly for those I serve.<\/p>\n

(Unnecessary Impoverishments: The Psalter\/Part 2 will look at the psalms in the context of the proper Entrance and Communion antiphons.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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