Description
PSALM 84
1 How dear to me is your dwelling, o God of hosts!*
My soul has a desire and longing for your courts;
My heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God
2 The sparrow has found her a house
and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young,*
by the side of your altars, O God of hosts,
my Ruler and my God.
3 Happy are they who dwell in your house;*
they will always be praising you.
For several years, the sisters of The Order of Saint Helena, a monastic community in the Episcopal Church, have been revising their services of worship. The primary goal of the revision is opening up the human vocabulary of prayer and expanding the ways in which we name and worship God.
This version of the Psalter, based upon the translation in the Book of Common Prayer, softens the exclusively male Hebrew terminology for the Creator God and recasts texts in ways that avoid the need for a he (or she) personal pronoun.
About the Author
The Order of Saint Helena was founded in 1945 by nine sisters who were former members of the Order of Saint Anne, founded in 1910. The convent is located in North Augusta, South Carolina.
Book Information
ISBN 9781640652057
Format Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint Church Publishing Inc
Publisher Church Publishing Inc
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