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Traditional Catholic Faith => The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers => Topic started by: Viva Cristo Rey on February 28, 2024, 05:38:08 AM

Title: 150 Psalms
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on February 28, 2024, 05:38:08 AM

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(Douay-Rheims,_Challoner)/Psalms

Title: Re: 150 Psalms
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on March 01, 2024, 09:04:00 AM

Saint Patrick prayed 150 psalms in water for penance.  Saint Patrick prayed, fasted and worked all day. 

Title: Re: 150 Psalms
Post by: ElwinRansom1970 on March 01, 2024, 12:03:59 PM

Quote from: Viva Cristo Rey on March 01, 2024, 09:04:00 AM

Saint Patrick prayed 150 psalms in water for penance.  Saint Patrick prayed, fasted and worked all day.

Hmm...although much of what is told about Patrick is legendary and his own writings consist only of the very brief Confessio and Epistola, I tend to believe that he he did engage in this penance with frigid water. I do however wonder if he prayed 150 psalms or if he prayed 151 psalms since not all manuscripts in his time had yet isolated Psalm 151 to an appendixed position apart from what the Roman Church now regards to be the canonical psalms.