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>FWIW, it was the intention of the Consilium revising the liturgical >books after Vatican II to restore Psalter collects in the new _LH_. A >Schema (draft proposal) was prepared, gathering examples from ancient >and medieval sources, but due to the opposition of the group's chair, >these collects were relegated to a _Supplementum_ that has (so far) >never been published. The ICEL rendering of these psalter collects can >be found in the US adaptation of the _LH_, though in a slightly >different position than was intended by Martimort and the group who >drafted the Schema. Thank you, Stan. I knew nothing of this. Speaking as a practitioner: I find that unless one pauses after, or before, each psalm to turn its content into prayer, there is a danger that one is simply burbling about Moab being my toss-pot, or whatever, without doing much actual praying. The psalter collects may provide texts to help one do that. Even as I write, a testimony on the subject has come in from Mon Lib, to which I direct the curious. Bill. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%