A Joyful Noise: A Monastic Approach to the Psalms

About this book

The Psalter is the official prayer book of the Church as well as a personal source of divinely inspired offerings to God expressing the entire gamut of human thoughts emotions sufferings aspirations gratitude and even despair. For three thousand years Jews and Christians have expressed their praise joys and sorrows through these faith-filled verses. A Joyful Noise explores the traditional monastic approach to interpreting the psalms dating back to the early desert fathers and mothers and used for lectio divina.