Responsorial Psalms & the Liturgical Cycle

I find this helps in the understanding the Responsorial Psalms & the Liturgical Cycles for the Sunday Missal and the Week-DAY Missal.

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Liturgical Cycle

http://www.stmaryscathedral.org.uk/scripture/liturgical_cycle.html

• The Lectionary is arranged into two cycles, one for Sundays and one for weekdays. 

• The Sunday cycle is divided into three years, labeled A, B, and C. 2005 is Year A, 2006 will be Year B, 2007 will be Year C, and so on. 

• The Liturgical Year begins on the 1st Sunday of Advent (usually late November) and ends with the Feast of Christ the King.

• In Year A, we read mostly from the gospel of Matthew. 

• In Year B, we read the gospel of Mark and chapter 6 of the gospel of John. 

• In Year C, we read the gospel of Luke. The gospel of John is read during the Easter season in all three years.

• The first reading, usually from the Old Testament, reflects important themes from the gospel reading. 

• The second reading is usually from one of the epistles, a letter written to an early church community. 

• These letters are read semi-continuously. 

• Each Sunday, we pick up close to where we left off the Sunday before, though some passages are never read.

• The weekday cycle is divided into two years, Year I and Year II. 

• Year I is read in odd-numbered years (2003, 2005, etc.) and Year II is used in even-numbered years (2002, 2004, etc.) 

• The gospels for both years are the same. 

• During the year, the gospels are read semi-continuously, beginning with Mark, then moving on to Matthew and Luke. 

• The gospel of John is read during the Easter season. For Advent , Christmas, and Lent , readings are chosen that are appropriate to the season. 

• The first reading on weekdays may be taken from the Old or the New Testament. 

• Typically, a single book is read semi-continuously (i.e. some passages are not read) until it is finished and then a new book is started.

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Psalms ~ Different Numbering Systems ~ Wikipedia

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Date & Time of Initial Research: 

Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:37 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms (An Excerpt)

Composition and numbering

The Book of Psalms consists of 150 psalms, each of which constitutes a religious song, though one or two are atypically long and may constitute a set of related chants. When the Bible was divided into chapters, each Psalm was assigned its own chapter. Psalms are sometimes referenced as chapters, despite chapter assignments postdating the initial composition of the "canonical" Psalms by at least 1,500 years.<sup>[citation needed]</sup> Though most of the psalms are believed to have been intended for singing (some even include instrumentation and the names of tunes to sing to), none includes any form of pitch-related musical notation, so it is impossible to determine the tunes to which the psalms were to be sung. (The Hebrews were not known to have or use any sort of musical notation.)

Numbering

The organization and numbering of the Psalms differs slightly between the (Masoretic) Hebrew and the (Septuagint) Greek manuscripts:

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• Psalms 9 and 10 in the Hebrew are combined into Psalm 9 in the Greek
• Psalms 114 and 115 in the Hebrew are combined into Psalm 113 in the Greek
• Psalm 116 in the Hebrew is divided into Psalms 114 and 115 in the Greek
• Psalm 147 in the Hebrew is divided into Psalms 146 and 147 in the Greek

Christian traditions vary:

• Catholic official liturgical texts follow the Greek numbering, but modern Catholic translations often use the Hebrew numbering, sometimes adding, in parenthesis, the Greek numbering as well.
• Eastern Orthodox translations are based on the Greek numbering;
• in the Syriac Orthodox Church Peshitta tradition there are 155 Psalms.
• Protestant translations are based on the Hebrew numbering;

For the remainder of this article, the Hebrew Psalm numbers will be used unless otherwise noted.

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