Lectio: Unity in Prayer Through the Responsorial Psalm

One of my favorite roles with our church has been as a lector, which means "one who reads" in Latin, and it involves getting to read one of the Sunday mass readings. I thought it would be fun to bring this to the podcast in a series called "Lectio," or "reading." Every Sunday mass, there are three readings: Old Testament, epistles and the gospel. I'll be syncing up Lectio episodes this season with the first Sunday of the month’s mass reading, so the week before mass you can be ruminating on one of the passages to come. For this Lectio, I’m going to do something I haven’t done before. I’m going to read and unpack the responsorial psalm. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while because I think there’s so much there that adds to the whole liturgy of the Word. For this Sunday’s mass, the responsorial psalm comes from Psalm 123. Correction: The first reading that I allude to is from the book of Ezekiel, not Ezra. Explore A Growing Home more:InstagramBlogFacebook