This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Ps 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Ps 63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Ps 77:12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
Ps 119:15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
Ps 119:23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
Ps 119:48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Ps 119:78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
Ps 119:148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
Ps 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
"And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." -- 1 John 2:17
I find this post interesting for the following reason:
Every day all over the world, there are many thousands of Catholics who pray the Divine Office, which is a daily prayer-reading of the Psalms, and which cover all 150 Psalms in a 4-week period. On any given day, we are all “on the same page”, reading the same Psalms of the day in spiritual union in all corners of the world. We pray/read Psalms in the morning, in the evening and another set that can be prayed at any time of day or night. Those of us who pray the Psalms are always encouraged in lectio divina-—which is more than just reading, but better described as absorbing or assimilating or digesting the words of God.
We know the praise Psalms, the temple Psalms, the penitentinal Psalms.
We who are committed to this prayerful practice are usually so familiar with the Psalms that we can often pray them from memory or call to mind a strophe at any time of day that, for us, will fit the happenings of the moment in time.
I am a member of a lay order. In my order alone there are 45,000 of us who daily pray the same Psalms together in spirit though we are in locations all over the world. That’s just the one lay order of which I am a member. There are many other lay orders just like mine. That doesn’t even count those who are in the religious life who are also praying the Divine Office.
There are more Catholics than you can imagine who are steeped in the Psalms, as well as the rest of Scripture, which is offered to them 365 days a year at every daily Mass (as is noted in the Catholic Mass Readings Caucus that is offered each day on this forum by Salvation.)
It’s a mistake—and an unfortunate one at that—to assume that Catholics do not read, meditate, and pray the Sacred Scriptures.
Albeit that we are unknown to you, we are most certainly there and alive to Scripture.
Maybe we don’t post long offerings of it on the internet, maybe we don’t offer Scripture in the same manner that non-Catholics may, but we are most assuredly there, most assuredly praying and absorbing the Sacred words.
ROE