Megan Daffen
provides us with a fresh translation of the Psalms, paired a 2-3 page
reflection. As with Sister Wendy’s The Art of Lent, while a “Lent”
book other that the final days you could follow these reflections at
any time of the year. I completely understand that labelling these a
Lent book will boost sales because people are particularly looking
for books for Lent, it is sad for those look outside of Lent are
likely to be put off by that branding.
The range of
emotions expressed in the Psalms are so rich, very truly all human
life is there. Yet we often risk failing to see the wood for the
trees – even where Psalms are a core part of liturgical life
In the reflections
Daffen helps unlock them, in a range of ways, providing some of the
historical context – when a Psalms is filled with rage at the
injustice of the world she explains, as far as we are able, what the
particular injustice was, but also, and perhaps more importantly, she
sets the emotions of the Psalms in a contemporary context.
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