Growing up in a German Catholic ghetto the DeProfundis (Ps 129 in the
Vulgata, we knew only that numbering in those days) was the first psalm we
learned as children in its entirety as it was sung at every funeral both for
Vespers and procession to Church for the Funeral Mass. Most traditional
Roman rite areas in Europe would have done something similar. Although it
has made a bit of a comeback in the revised rites for the wake, I would be
surprised to find more than a handful of RCs today who have any serious
familiarity with it, and certainly very few would know it from its latin
incipit.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill East" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: De profundis?
>
>
> --- joseph pope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Dear Oriens,
> > Do you truly think all Catholics today are sufficiently
> > informed to
> > know the significance of the de profundis?? I would tend to doubt
> > it.
> > Joe Pope
>
> This one isn't so much a matter of information or education, but of
> popular devotion. The faithful, at least in this part of the world,
> recite it at meetings, or after the rosary, without any help from the
> clergy. I would think it fairly well known. Even if someone didn't
> know all the words (indeed I can never remember them, in the rather
> antique translation commonly used) I would think fact that the De
> Profundis was recited for the dead would be commonly known.
>
> Bill.
>
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