Psalm Prayers

by David Haas

Liturgical composer Haas offers prayers grounded in the psalms of the Hebrew Scriptures. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867162333
• ISBN13: 9780867162332
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Franciscan Media
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

excellent book to meet a niche need

David Haas has provided an excellent service - he has provided psalms for those who can't pray the psalms. More specifically, he has taken a number of liturgically important psalms, often only the liturgical selection of verses, and created psalm prayers in contemporary language and style. What is most impressive about this work is he has usually retained Biblical images, making these psalm prayers a school for the eventual praying of the psalms themselves.This is not to say that Haas' renderings are great poetry, but they are singable/chantable in the structure of the Liturgy of the Hours (i.e. they have antiphons, can be sung in unison or antiphonally ...).An example from Psalm 55: "If I had the winds of a dove, / I would fly away to safety. / I would fly far, / far away, / I would hide in the wilderness."I recommend it as one of the best collections I have seen attempting to fulfil the "praying the psalms but not understanding the psalms as prayer" need.