Fr. Pat has led many to the fullness of the Orthodox faith, and undoubtedly, many more will follow. "Christ in the Psalms", his best seller, is essential for every Christian-reading the Psalms through the lens of Christ transforms one’s entire spiritual journey. Some of the verses in the Psalms like these, "Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High" (Psalm 7:8) and many more, can only be read if Christ prays them and we join our prayers through His righteousness, as no human in their right mind can pray these Psalms based on their own righteousness. Fr. Pat's work is a true gift to all who seek a deeper understanding of Christ and the Scriptures. May the Lord bless him abundantly for the light he brings to so many.
The reading of the Psalms at Vespers drew me into the One Holy Catholic Orthodox Church! ☦️ I converted from all forms/branches of protestantism / evangelical beliefs /churches
I have his book: Christ in the Psalms." I recommend this to every Catholic who wants to take their prayer life to the next level. I read 1 Psalm per day with this commentary. I've been through it 12 times so far. Once you read this book, you will never read the Psalms the same way again.
When praying the Psalms,i have never made the Christological connections until watching this wonderful interview, thank you Reverend Father Patrick,for your clear concise explanations,& thank you Reverend Father Josiah,for asking the right questions,we are blessed to have you both as our shepherds in Christ,
Commiting to the Psalter ( everyday ) fundamentally changed my faith. I no longer the read Psalter: It began to read me. As a Catholic convert, I would highly recommend the Douy-Rheims version of the Bible which is translated from the Septuagint faithfully.
@Anglican Sounds they didn't have Masoretic texts back then you Anglican dummy and there's nothing wrong with learning the Old Hebrew to compare translations. It was the revisions the Jews made against Christianity that make it terrible to use
I am thrilled to see this, and am going to rewatch in tomorrow night with my husband,. We do bible study every night together and right now we are working through the Psalms,4 or 5 every night, then watch a talk or sermon. I have been trying to explain to him how people, especially religious, use the Psalms for prayer and chant them or pray them during masses during the day, but it is better to have him hear a priest explain it. Thank you so much for this.
It's difficult to listen to this on headphones, because Fr. Reardon can only be heard on the left channel while Fr. Trenham is heard from both the left & right just fine. Something you may want to watch out for in future videos.
The scriptures in early churches were written by hand, of course so they were very valuable. When printed it was possible to include all the writings translated from the Hebrew that are collectively called the Old Testament . These were available for those who liked to dispute about texts and led to various sects being set up, I suppose. The Psalms were just one of the books to them and not so important it would seem. Thanks for this talk.
I’m in a place weighing Catholicism versus orthodoxy, and I love praying in Latin, and something I was concerned about in orthodoxy is that I might be banned from doing that. It seems that the father was praying the psalms in Latin though?
The pre-schism Church had both Latin and Greek speakers who were both praying and singing the Psalter and singing according to the Septuagint. The Vulgate Latin is a faithful rendition of the Septuagint and is beautiful poetry and part of Holy Tradition. Holy Tradition is Holy Orthodoxy, there is no ban on Latin. Orthodoxy doesn't work through banning things, it works through compunction (of our own unworthyness) and desire to turn to God in love.
@@gillianc6514 Wrong. The 405 AD Vulgate Bible is same-same as the Masoretic Text. Jerome translated from it prior to the being "Masoreted," (that is, the Hebrew text having the vowel system added to it.) In the book named The City Of God by Augustine there's a very good description to it's immediate rejection by the people who were shocked and hated it. Don't beleeve me: go compare the Masoretic Text, (say, of a KJV) to the Douay-Rheims Bible, the English trans. of the Vulgate.
@@gillianc6514 Thank you for responding, i did some comparisons and from a perfunctory look i see that for the Psalms Jerome did use the Seventy / Septuagint. But he used the MT most all elsewhere. Such as this travesty that rabbis hate to have to deal with: Douay-Rheims Bible Masoretic Text Micah 1:8 has the prophet saying, (or perhaps it is the Lord saying): Therefore will I lament and howl: I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and a mourning like the ostriches. Not so the Seventy : it's "she" Another: Hosea 10:12a Brenton Septuagint Translation Sow to yourselves for righteousness, gather in for the fruit of life: light ye for yourselves the light of knowledge;. Douay-Rheims Bible Hosea 10:12a Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground: But i am relieved to see that Jerome didn't go with the MT covering the God-image(s) descriptive names with the word "Rock" 26 times. There’s only verse in the Septuagint calling God a Rock but it’s figuratively done so in a song: The Septuagint 2nd Samuel 22:2 And the song was thus: O Lord, my rock … . Masoretic Text 2nd Samuel 22:2 And he said, The LORD is my rock … . Compare verses easy online on Bible Hub The Brenton Septuagint Translation to the Douay-Rheims Bible are 1/2 way down the 25 versions given for each verse Googled. just Google a verse and chose Bible Hub to do comparisons. God Bless.
The only thing with which I disagree with the great Fr. Patrick is the translation recommended. The Boston psalter is pretty ugly in its English; I’ve found the best English LXX translation is the psalter in the old Catholic Douay-Rheims, which is actually the parent of the HTM Boston psalter.
Can a version of this be uploaded where audio is heard in both headphones? I was hoping to listen to this but am unable to unfortunately because I’m in a loud place.
Jews didn't change the Tanahk and remove or change verses that pointed to Jesus as Messiah? There aren't over 1000 significant differences between the Septuagint and Masoretic text? I'm neither an Evangelical nor Orthodox, but a pretty good country historian. Where did the original text from which the Septuagint was translated go? Gee, who had total control over those texts. As early as Origin it was recognized the Jews were already altering the text. The Orthodox Church had better keep an eye on all these Evangelical preachers coming over to the Orthodox Church and getting ordained because they like the antiquity and aesthetics. These guys were raised on Dispensationalism and Christian Zionism with their mother's milk. They may not even be aware of this but they will filter everything through those eyes unless seriously "deprogrammed."
This was the same problem Blessed Augustine had; he had a lot of heretical and pagan baggage. I remember years ago when I was at church after vespers, I brought some books I had on missiology that I liked. I showed them to one of the readers (a Ukrainian born man who was raised Orthodox), he briefly examined the books and asked, “How long has the author been Orthodox?”, I told him, “Ten Years”, and he then dismissed the books. At the time I was slightly offended, but looking back I realize that he had a point. Not to say converts shouldn’t become priests, just that they should take more time to let go of heretical baggage and absorb the truth of Orthodoxy before they begin writing and teaching in such volumes. Perhaps more time in monasteries rather than seminaries will help. Seminaries have such a tendency to get one in their head, whereas monasteries are places that bring us into our hearts. There are a myriad of great Orthodox teachers out there. Many of whom are saints and have fallen asleep in the Lord. We should pay heed to them. No offense to these Pastors.
Yeah, with all due respect to Fr. Patrick, there's a reason the church uses the Septuagint instead of Masoretic. In some passages perhaps we can chalk it up to different textual traditions but in others there seems to be an attempt to obscure prophesies of Christ.
Cristero Warrior what would be your particular criticisms of him? I know that you live in Chicago, so have you run across him before or you just don’t agree with his teaching/writings?
There's a small and insignificant internet tribe of Orthodox "gatekeepers" who don't like Reardon because he supposedly has novel things to say about the incarnation. It's just garden variety internet noise.
@Dovaferret I'm suggesting there *isn't* anything novel, that this internet minority who think there's something novel are just echoing other people's misunderstandings for the sake of being contrarian. It's the same sort of people who hated Hopko because he didn't idolize monastics.
I have the same question. I am not sure though if they are unites...or east churches but not orthodox... Like the monophysítes... It all comes down to the Credo lot Pisteúo of the Orthodox one and only Holy Catholic(Greek word meaning towards or for to all and of course nothing yo do with the Vaticanism as heretic belief , Apostolic Church(Ekklisia=the call for gathering ,meeting of the citizens for the common public affairs... Ekklisi=appeal ,klisi=call....so Ekklisia is the common call ,appeal to gather to unite to collect our spiritual strength to offer to Trinitarian God Offer Acceptable of Humble Hearts)
A tall claim. Apart from, well, the fact that no one can actually does speak for Orthodoxy. But we knew that. Cristero Warrior (aka Yusuf alTahir aka John the Hut Dweller) has a big mouth. Lots of opinions, lots of chain smoking. I am not a fan...
1 WORLD RELIGION COUNTRY I. A. M... I... INDIA.. hindu A.. ARAB. rep.. Islam M.. MA I... phil.. Christian 1 world. 1 god.. 1 message I A. M.... GOD.. I AM.. THE WORD OF GOD.. EYE. A. MEN..... I A MAN.... THE WORD. MADE FLESH AND THE WORD. WAS. GOD.. EYE AM... GOD
Fr. Pat has led many to the fullness of the Orthodox faith, and undoubtedly, many more will follow. "Christ in the Psalms", his best seller, is essential for every Christian-reading the Psalms through the lens of Christ transforms one’s entire spiritual journey. Some of the verses in the Psalms like these, "Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High" (Psalm 7:8) and many more, can only be read if Christ prays them and we join our prayers through His righteousness, as no human in their right mind can pray these Psalms based on their own righteousness. Fr. Pat's work is a true gift to all who seek a deeper understanding of Christ and the Scriptures. May the Lord bless him abundantly for the light he brings to so many.
The reading of the Psalms at Vespers drew me into the One Holy Catholic Orthodox Church! ☦️
I converted from all forms/branches of protestantism / evangelical beliefs /churches
Saving 21:53 for anyone who wanders along
They correct it further in the video: 22:46. NRSV, not NIV.
That would be me, thank you sir lol
@@channelmin3cr4ft To be fair, I think burning all the NIV's would still be a decent move. It's a very sloppy translation.
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing. Peace ☦
Psalm 22(23) always gets me I’m the praying mood.
Wow! What a reminder to get back to the Psalms. Thanks for this interview.
This needs to be rebranded as an Unintentional ASMR Video
The Psalms are my favorite OT passages.
I have his book: Christ in the Psalms."
I recommend this to every Catholic who wants to take their prayer life to the next level.
I read 1 Psalm per day with this commentary. I've been through it 12 times so far.
Once you read this book, you will never read the Psalms the same way again.
When praying the Psalms,i have never made the Christological connections until watching this wonderful interview, thank you Reverend Father Patrick,for your clear concise explanations,& thank you Reverend Father Josiah,for asking the right questions,we are blessed to have you both as our shepherds in Christ,
Get his book: Christ in the Psalms.
Just ordered it @@Ryan_Zell
Commiting to the Psalter ( everyday ) fundamentally changed my faith. I no longer the read Psalter: It began to read me. As a Catholic convert, I would highly recommend the Douy-Rheims version of the Bible which is translated from the Septuagint faithfully.
@Anglican Sounds no, the Vulgate is a Latin translation from the Septuagint also, avoid Masoretic texts they’ve been tampered with
@Anglican Sounds they didn't have Masoretic texts back then you Anglican dummy and there's nothing wrong with learning the Old Hebrew to compare translations. It was the revisions the Jews made against Christianity that make it terrible to use
But...what IS the COFFEE PSALM?!?
;-)
Thank you Fathers!
Thank you Father for this important video.
I am thrilled to see this, and am going to rewatch in tomorrow night with my husband,. We do bible study every night together and right now we are working through the Psalms,4 or 5 every night, then watch a talk or sermon. I have been trying to explain to him how people, especially religious, use the Psalms for prayer and chant them or pray them during masses during the day, but it is better to have him hear a priest explain it. Thank you so much for this.
At home it takes us about 5-6 weeks to pray through all the Psalms. I wish I was more disciplined to do them all at home every week.
Thank you Father. Yes the Psalms are powerful prayers.
Thank you for the enlightening video Fr.Joshia .God bless you.Greetings from Greece.
Thank you for confirming that I chose the best Psalter. And you have shown me that my past Biblucal Hebrew studies were not a complete waste of time.
Excellent! Thank you both!
I always look forward to new videos from your channel! Thank you so much for making, and posting them!
It's difficult to listen to this on headphones, because Fr. Reardon can only be heard on the left channel while Fr. Trenham is heard from both the left & right just fine. Something you may want to watch out for in future videos.
A wi-fi earpiece combines every available track into one ear, eliminating this drawback.
Very sweet. Nectar...words. thank you For. Trenhams.
Thank you for giving an explanation for Psalm 108 and Christ the Rock..
Both these men represent Orthodoxy.
A new video to end off the year!
The scriptures in early churches were written by hand, of course so they were very valuable. When printed it was possible to include all the writings translated from the Hebrew that are collectively called the Old Testament . These were available for those who liked to dispute about texts and led to various sects being set up, I suppose.
The Psalms were just one of the books to them and not so important it would seem. Thanks for this talk.
I’m in a place weighing Catholicism versus orthodoxy, and I love praying in Latin, and something I was concerned about in orthodoxy is that I might be banned from doing that. It seems that the father was praying the psalms in Latin though?
The pre-schism Church had both Latin and Greek speakers who were both praying and singing the Psalter and singing according to the Septuagint. The Vulgate Latin is a faithful rendition of the Septuagint and is beautiful poetry and part of Holy Tradition. Holy Tradition is Holy Orthodoxy, there is no ban on Latin. Orthodoxy doesn't work through banning things, it works through compunction (of our own unworthyness) and desire to turn to God in love.
@@gillianc6514 Wrong. The 405 AD Vulgate Bible is same-same as the Masoretic Text. Jerome translated from it prior to the being "Masoreted," (that is, the Hebrew text having the vowel system added to it.) In the book named The City Of God by Augustine there's a very good description to it's immediate rejection by the people who were shocked and hated it. Don't beleeve me: go compare the Masoretic Text, (say, of a KJV) to the Douay-Rheims Bible, the English trans. of the Vulgate.
@@TedBruckner i was referring to the psalms only. Jerome acknowledged that the Septuagint was the definitive psalmody of the liturgy .
@@gillianc6514 Thank you for responding,
i did some comparisons and
from a perfunctory look
i see that for the Psalms
Jerome did use the Seventy / Septuagint.
But he used the MT most all elsewhere.
Such as this travesty that rabbis hate to have to deal with:
Douay-Rheims Bible Masoretic Text Micah 1:8 has the prophet saying, (or perhaps it is the Lord saying):
Therefore will I lament and howl: I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and a mourning like the ostriches.
Not so the Seventy : it's "she"
Another:
Hosea 10:12a Brenton Septuagint Translation
Sow to yourselves for righteousness, gather in for the fruit of life: light ye for yourselves the light of knowledge;.
Douay-Rheims Bible Hosea 10:12a
Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground:
But i am relieved to see that Jerome didn't go with the MT covering the God-image(s) descriptive names with the word "Rock" 26 times.
There’s only verse in the Septuagint calling God a Rock but it’s figuratively done so in a song:
The Septuagint 2nd Samuel 22:2
And the song was thus: O Lord, my rock … .
Masoretic Text 2nd Samuel 22:2
And he said, The LORD is my rock … .
Compare verses easy online on Bible Hub
The Brenton Septuagint Translation
to
the Douay-Rheims Bible
are
1/2 way down the 25 versions given for each verse Googled.
just Google a verse
and chose Bible Hub
to do comparisons.
God Bless.
No launguage is "banned" in the Church, do not worry
Where can I read more about the tradition that our Blessed Lord prayed Psalms 21-30 on the Cross? @12:54
Fr. Reardon, Father Trenham - What do you think of the Old and New Testament translations of the Orthodox study Bible?
Anyone know what book he's referring to by Saint Paisios? I'd really like to get it
The only thing with which I disagree with the great Fr. Patrick is the translation recommended. The Boston psalter is pretty ugly in its English; I’ve found the best English LXX translation is the psalter in the old Catholic Douay-Rheims, which is actually the parent of the HTM Boston psalter.
Can a version of this be uploaded where audio is heard in both headphones? I was hoping to listen to this but am unable to unfortunately because I’m in a loud place.
A wi-fi earpiece combines every available track into one ear, eliminating this drawback, just place one ear plug in the free ear.
And I am guessing the book of proverbs too.
Jews didn't change the Tanahk and remove or change verses that pointed to Jesus as Messiah? There aren't over 1000 significant differences between the Septuagint and Masoretic text? I'm neither an Evangelical nor Orthodox, but a pretty good country historian. Where did the original text from which the Septuagint was translated go? Gee, who had total control over those texts. As early as Origin it was recognized the Jews were already altering the text.
The Orthodox Church had better keep an eye on all these Evangelical preachers coming over to the Orthodox Church and getting ordained because they like the antiquity and aesthetics. These guys were raised on Dispensationalism and Christian Zionism with their mother's milk. They may not even be aware of this but they will filter everything through those eyes unless seriously "deprogrammed."
This was the same problem Blessed Augustine had; he had a lot of heretical and pagan baggage.
I remember years ago when I was at church after vespers, I brought some books I had on missiology that I liked. I showed them to one of the readers (a Ukrainian born man who was raised Orthodox), he briefly examined the books and asked, “How long has the author been Orthodox?”,
I told him, “Ten Years”, and he then dismissed the books. At the time I was slightly offended, but looking back I realize that he had a point.
Not to say converts shouldn’t become priests, just that they should take more time to let go of heretical baggage and absorb the truth of Orthodoxy before they begin writing and teaching in such volumes.
Perhaps more time in monasteries rather than seminaries will help. Seminaries have such a tendency to get one in their head, whereas monasteries are places that bring us into our hearts.
There are a myriad of great Orthodox teachers out there. Many of whom are saints and have fallen asleep in the Lord. We should pay heed to them.
No offense to these Pastors.
Amen
Is there a definitive published work on those revisions? I have to be somewhat suspicious of your research, it is awfully easy to make such claims.
Yeah, with all due respect to Fr. Patrick, there's a reason the church uses the Septuagint instead of Masoretic. In some passages perhaps we can chalk it up to different textual traditions but in others there seems to be an attempt to obscure prophesies of Christ.
That man does not represent Orthodoxy
Cristero Warrior what would be your particular criticisms of him? I know that you live in Chicago, so have you run across him before or you just don’t agree with his teaching/writings?
There's a small and insignificant internet tribe of Orthodox "gatekeepers" who don't like Reardon because he supposedly has novel things to say about the incarnation. It's just garden variety internet noise.
@Dovaferret I'm suggesting there *isn't* anything novel, that this internet minority who think there's something novel are just echoing other people's misunderstandings for the sake of being contrarian. It's the same sort of people who hated Hopko because he didn't idolize monastics.
I have the same question.
I am not sure though if they are unites...or east churches but not orthodox... Like the monophysítes...
It all comes down to the Credo lot Pisteúo of the Orthodox one and only Holy Catholic(Greek word meaning towards or for to all and of course nothing yo do with the Vaticanism as heretic belief , Apostolic Church(Ekklisia=the call for gathering ,meeting of the citizens for the common public affairs... Ekklisi=appeal ,klisi=call....so Ekklisia is the common call ,appeal to gather to unite to collect our spiritual strength to offer to Trinitarian God Offer Acceptable of Humble Hearts)
A tall claim. Apart from, well, the fact that no one can actually does speak for Orthodoxy. But we knew that.
Cristero Warrior (aka Yusuf alTahir aka John the Hut Dweller) has a big mouth. Lots of opinions, lots of chain smoking. I am not a fan...
1 WORLD RELIGION COUNTRY
I. A. M...
I... INDIA.. hindu
A.. ARAB. rep.. Islam
M.. MA I... phil.. Christian
1 world. 1 god.. 1 message
I A. M.... GOD..
I AM.. THE WORD OF GOD..
EYE. A. MEN.....
I A MAN....
THE WORD. MADE FLESH
AND THE WORD. WAS. GOD..
EYE AM... GOD