From Manual of Prayers for Children in Catholic Grade and High Schools compiled and illustrated by the Sisters of the Adoration of the Most Precious Blood in O’Fallon, Mo., published in 1949.
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Selection is everything. The psalms are often replete with vengeance. Psalm 58:6 ” O God, break their teeth in their mouths” is problematic in the hands of many teens I bonded with when young (and there are many psalms to the same effect). They are actually to be used by us even now but with salvific mental reservations each time. Christ seems to reverse such psalms here: Matthew 5:43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.”
The trick…post Christ…is to funnel vengeance ( not deny it as an emotion) into the therapeutic-salvific channel ie ” Lord punish Al Qaeda greatly here on earth even with illness that they may convert and avoid the unending punishment of hell.”
Later in psalm 58 is another problem area: verse 10…” The righteous will be glad when they see the vengeance; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.”. St. Thomas noted that such passages tell of emotions but are not about emotions but about one’s will in Heaven. In Heaven, you will will what God wills because in part you will there see the nuances of how e.g.
a family member of yours ended up in hell. You will see how much love they rejected as God wooed them throughout their whole life…which you didn’t see while on earth.
If you can Christianize Psalm 137:9 addressed to the Edomites, welcome to the psalms…you have passed the worst test. It reads, ” Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock.”. Not even Pope Benedict would mention that verse in his section 42 of Verbum Domini when he treats of the dark passages of scripture.
But a monk in a contemplative monastery taught me how to recycle it in Christian terms…”use it not as being about any humans but as being about Satan and his ideas which are his infants so to speak.”
It was a wonderful monastery…and rich in insight and I was glad to have that pivotal moment with him….on the seemingly worst psalm verse ever.
This brings back so many good memories! The Precious Blood Sisters taught me in grade school at Holy Family parish in St. Louis. What a blessing they were to all of us children, what a shame when they left the school. I’ll keep them in my prayers.