Commentary on the Seven Penitential Psalms


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Psalms 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142 are the seven penitential psalms. These psalms were written by King David in remembrance of his sins and to ask God's forgiveness and are meditated on until this day for the same purpose. This commentary will assist those who wish to truly pray the penitential psalms rather than just reading them. We can consider that John Fisher became a saint in part by such holy considerations that went into preparing this series of seven sermons. May our reading his commentary help us also to become saints.St. Alphonsus writes: “a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery.” Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: “There rises to Our lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world because of scandals!' (Matthew 18:7). Woe to those who consciously and deliberately spread corruption-in novels, newspapers, magazines, theaters, films, in a world of immodesty!” We at St. Pius X Press are calling for a crusade of good books. We want to restore 1,000 old Catholic books to the market. We ask for your assistance and prayers. This book is a photographic reprint of the original The original has been inspected and many imperfections in the existing copy have been corrected. At Saint Pius X Press our goal is to remain faithful to the original in both photographic reproductions and in textual reproductions that are reprinted. Photographic reproductions are given a page by page inspection, whereas textual reproductions are proofread to correct any errors in reproduction.




Exposition of the Seven Penitential Psalms


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In addition to Fisher's commentaries, this book includes an introduction to Fisher's life and writings by the translator, Anne Barbeau Gardiner.













Commentary on the Seven Penitential Psalms, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Commentary on the Seven Penitential Psalms, Vol. 1 Upon this edition (which I have compared with the original), published in 1714 and modernized then to suit the requirements of those days, I have formed this new edition, modernizing it still further, so as to bring it down to our times. In other words I have par'agraphed these sermons, which scarcely had a break in them from beginning to end; disentangled and divided long involved sentences; adopted throughout modern orthography and punctuation; replaced obsolete words with words of common usage; and modified certain rude modes of expression, which, though suitable to a less polished age, would grate offensively on the ears 'of this more refined and sensitive generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.