Category: Jesus Psalter

  • A Tale of Two Kisses

    A Tale of Two Kisses

    SOLOMON WRITES FOR the Bride these words, “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.” Certainly, that is the desire of our hearts, that the Lord should kiss us so. Yet, as in a dream where everything is one’s own mind speaking, so in scripture, everything is God’s own word. And how our…

  • The Mystery of Reality

    The Mystery of Reality

    This is part of a series of posts on the invocations of the Jesus Psalter. There is a menu of these posts at the bottom. The invocations will be considered thematically. Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, grant me grace to remember my deathJesu, Jesu, Jesu, send me here my purgatory BE CAREFUL what you pray for, the…

  • The Mystery of Relationship

    The Mystery of Relationship

    This is part of a series of posts on the invocations of the Jesus Psalter. There is a menu of these posts at the bottom. The invocations will be considered thematically. Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, grant me grace to fear theeJesu, Jesu, Jesu, grant me grace to love thee THERE ARE SEVERAL Of the invocations that…

  • The Mystery of Mercy

    The Mystery of Mercy

    This is part of a series of posts on the invocations of the Jesus Psalter. There is a menu of these posts at the bottom. The invocations will be considered thematically. Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, have mercy on meJesu, Jesu, Jesu, help meJesu, Jesu, Jesu, strengthen meJesu, Jesu, Jesu, comfort me THE OPENING Invocations on the…

  • The Jesus Psalter: Intro

    The Jesus Psalter: Intro

    ENGLAND’S PERSECUTION OF the Catholic Faith began with what is euphemistically called the Herician Reform. Henry VIII had no intention of “reforming the Church” but rather of creating a new Church with himself as the head. He wished to replace an infallible Pope with an omnipotent King. To this end, much like politicians today, he…

  • Memento Mori

    Today’s readings: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Luke 4:16-30 Quoniam ipse Dominus in jussu, et in voce archangeli, et in tuba Dei descendet de cælo: et mortui, qui in Christo sunt, resurgent primi. Deinde nos, qui vivimus, qui relinquimur, simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Christo in aëra, et sic semper cum Domino erimus. For the Lord…

  • Fourth Petition – Jesus Psalter

    To see all the other notes in this series, click on “Jesus Psalter” or in the labels below. To see the first post click here. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus comfort me. (x10) Jesus comfort me and give me grace place my chief, my only joy in thee. Send me heavenly meditations, spiritual sweetness, and fervent desires of thy…

  • Third Petition – Jesus Psalter

    To see all the other notes in this series, click on “Jesus Psalter” or in the labels below. To see the first post click here. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus strengthen me. (x10) Jesus strengthen me in soul and body to the performance of all virtue for thy pleasure, whereby I may attain to thy everlasting joy and felicity.…

  • The Second Petition – The Jesus Psalter

    Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, help me. (x10) Jesus help me to overcome all temptation to sin and the malice of my ghostly enemies.Help me to spend my time in virtue and in labors acceptable to thee, to repress in my flesh the motions of sloth, gluttony, and lust.Help me to have a heart fully in love…

  • The First Petition – Jesus Psalter

    This whole series can be found under Jesus Psalter Series in the sidebar. The reader is referred there for “how to” and any historical notes. To the latter I will add more as I find them. Each petition will be posted in the same format: the petition itself, which is to be said ten times, followed…

  • Jesus Psalter – Notes and Practice

    Each section of the Psalter (a Section is Five Decades) opens with the recitation of two verses of Scripture, Philippians 2:10-11. In nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur caelestium, terrestrium et infernorum, Et omnis lingua confiteatur, quia Dominus Jesus Christus in gloria est Dei Patris.In the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that…

  • The Jesus Psalter

    I first heard of the Jesus Psalter reading Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s wonderful Come Rack, Come Rope, a love story set in the time of the Elizabethan Pogroms. It was also my first introduction to how those Pogroms were conducted – hunters, star courts, betrayals, simony, etc. Reading such a story can drive one to despair,…