Furthermore…

This week we considered the readings of the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle B).  We don’t usually spend much time discussing the day’s Psalm.  A lot of the meditations and reviews of  Sunday readings don’t even allude to the psalm at all. The Psalms seem to exist in a world of their own, a world of sensitive, personal awareness of God, an awareness apart from the logical-sounding historical and doctrinal observations that attach so naturally to the Old and New Testament passages and the Epistles.  The kinds of comments that the other readings bring to mind don’t apply to or flow so readily from the psalms, unfortunately.  After a psalm reading I usually have the thought  ‘What is there to say about that?’.

But this week our meeting’s leader, after the Psalm (Psalm 146) had been read, found a note in her Bible which had the same ring of thoughtful analysis as commonly is appropriate for the other readings.  I have a new hope that we will find some source book that will allow us to have something intelligent and satisfying to consider about the psalms we read in future weeks.