{"id":9365,"date":"2017-05-08T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/?p=9365"},"modified":"2017-05-08T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:24:01","slug":"the-joy-of-the-scriptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2017\/05\/08\/the-joy-of-the-scriptures\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of the Scriptures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Psalm 87<\/p><\/div>\n

Hello all, Orin here. \u00a0One of my roles\u00a0as Music Director at Sts. Joachim and Ann<\/a> in suburban STL is to prep music for school masses. \u00a0One of the tasks for each mass is ensuring we have a responsorial psalm and a psalmist or two ready to go: both I and the pastor at J&A prefer to do the readings of the day, so I need to ensure that the psalms are easily grasped both by the psalmists from the different homerooms in school (on limited rehearsal time), as well as by the assembly. \u00a0Before sitting down to write this, in fact, I needed to create a new one for a school mass tomorrow, led by our 4th graders. \u00a0You can see an image of the simple music just over there…<\/p>\n

By now, ending my 5th year at J&A, many such psalms are already written, and it’s rare I need to take a moment and create a new one, but this morning was such a time. \u00a0A quick count shows I’ve created over 130 of these in 5 years. \u00a0An unexpected joy of the role here at J&A has become getting to know the psalms in such a broad way. \u00a0Many of us know several of the more common Sunday responsorial psalms well, but the psalms at daily mass are much more diverse than at\u00a0Sundays alone, and as a result, some unexpected poetry, theology, spirituality, and expressions of faith come to my attention over these few years.<\/p>\n

This hymn of praise to Zion, for instance, responds joyfully to a reading from the Acts of the Apostles, in which we hear how the early Church grew far past Jerusalem, partly because early followers of Christ were scattered to many places, avoiding persecution, and were bolstered and taught by the likes of Barnabas and Paul. \u00a0This passage ends, “…it was in Antioch that the disciples\u00a0were first called Christians.”<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a joy in the scriptures which only grows and blossoms\u00a0the more deeply one knows, prays, and lives them. \u00a0As broad as the scripture passages are on Sundays,\u00a0an easy way to encounter so much more is to attend\u00a0daily mass – a practice\u00a0which was not a significant part of my life before arriving at J&A, but is now. \u00a0When was the last time you attended a daily mass? \u00a0Perhaps it’s time to consider a new discipline in faith, and rediscover the joy of the scriptures, like I have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello all, Orin here. \u00a0One of my roles\u00a0as Music Director at Sts. Joachim and Ann in suburban STL is to prep music for school masses. \u00a0One of the tasks for each mass is ensuring we have a responsorial psalm and a psalmist or two ready to go: both I and the pastor at J&A prefer…<\/p>\n

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