Inside the Psalms

Mother Maureen F. McCabe, OCSO, entered Mount Saint Mary's Abbey in Wrentham, Massachusetts, in 1972, after having taught high school theology and done graduate study in Scripture. She served as novice director in the community for seventeen years and in 2008 was elected abbess. She is the author of Inside the Psalms: Reflections for Novices also from Cistercian Publications.

• CONTENTSForeword: Bernardo Bonowitz, OCSO   ixPreface: The Formative Power of the Psalms   3Psalm l: Meditatio Day and Night   5Psalm 2: Communion in Christ   8Psalm 4: The Secret Joy   12Psalm 8: The Time of Your Visitation   15The Psalms and Remembering   19Psalm 15: Examen   22Psalm 16: The Joy of Jesus Risen   27Psalm 18: Primeval Waters   30Psalm 23: Quies 36Psalm 25: Cistercian Advent   40Psalm 26: Defenselessness  44Seeking God’s Face in the Psalms   47Psalm 29: Glory!   54Psalm 32: Openness of Heart   58The Penitential Psalms   62Psalm 45: Listen, O Daughter   68 Psalm 46: Emmanuel, God with Us   73Psalm 51: The Heart   76Psalm 55: Solitude and Community   82Psalm 58: A Good Curse   87Psalm 63: Desire in the Night   90Psalm 73: The Sixth Step of Humility   93Psalm 91: Overshadowing   98Psalms in the Night   102Psalm 95: Today!   107Psalm 103: Universal Tenderness   111Psalm 119 and the Rule of Saint Benedict   116The Gradual Psalms   123Psalm 147: A Mirror for Novices   128Psalm 148: Let Earth Praise the Lord   132Acknowledgments   135Index   136

This is a serious book and deserves total attention to read from cover to cover. Maureen McCabe, OCSO, gives us an example, those of us who pick up our office books hour after hour, day after day. We need to note what she says, but more than that, do what she does.Meg Funk, OSB