Sat, 06 Oct 2007

Savonarola on Psalm 51

You never know what you'll turn up at Google Books. Here's a translation of Girolamo Savonarola's extended meditation on Psalm 51, Miserere mei, Deus, written during his imprisonment and torture. What do the Dominicans make of Savonarola nowadays?

I knew a priest at St Matthew's in Champaign IL back in the 90s who was working on an English translation of Savonarola's works, but I don't know what became of the project.

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Fri, 05 Oct 2007

Commentaries are up

At the kind prompting of Deacon John Paul Kelly of St Bernard of Clairvaux parish in Dallas, Texas, I've finally completed my guide to the Psalm commentaries of John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

Update: I just found that the archdiocese of Newark links to this page from their permanent diaconate page (see the left column).

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Thu, 04 Oct 2007

St Bruno the Carthusian on the Psalms

Here begins his commentary on the Psalms. Wish I could read Latin...

DIV I BRUNONIS PRIMI CARTHUSIANORUM INSTITOTORIS SANCTISSIMI ET THEOLOGI DOCTISSIMI ICUI OPERUM TOMUS SEU PARS I EXPOSITÍO IN PSALMOS PRÓLOGOS В Psalterium cstquoddammusicum inslrumcnlum quod ex superiori cavitate rcsonat Et quia instrumento tali psalmorum melos canebatur ab instrumento suo nomen recle tolum opus istud acce pit Sicut enim psalterium a superiori resonat ita el opus hoc totum de superiori id est de Dei laude resonat Intentio autemoperis hujus multiplex esse per titulorum singulorum diversitatem oslenditur Turn enim de Incarnatione Nativitate Passione Resurrectione el cscteris actibus Christi turn de salvatione bonorumdamnationeque malorumpro phelare intendit in quibus omnibus Dei laudes at tenduutur la passions enim et cícteris ejus acti bus injustorum salvatione humilitatis ipsius et misericordia in mpiorum vero damnationejustitiae laudes esse perpenduntur Ideoque méritoliberiste apud Hebrœos Liber hymnorum dicitur id est Dei laudum Hymnivero laudes Dei metrice factae proprie dicunlur psalmi autem lyrico métro compo siti fueruut ut Arator ait Psalterium lyrici cumposuere pedes Tria vero in diviuis sicut in sœcularibus libris considcrantur Quia sicut sœculares partim adphy sicam partim adethicam partim VITO ad logicam tenduril sic et divini quidam ad physicam la tarnen quod in ipsa physica denotetur figura ut in Genesi demundi origine et in Ecclesiaste de multis

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