Psalms for the Lectionary is a collection of responsorial psalms for Sundays written in a lyric (or song) style, rather than chant.
 
Volume 1 contains psalms for the seasons and solemnities. Volume 2 covers all the Sundays of Ordinary Time.
 
This is the Cantor Edition and contain the melody lines only for all the psalms of the three-year cycle.
 
There are nearly 200 items across the two volumes of Psalms for the Lectionary. However, the verses are served by just 41 tunes. Each tune has a number and name in the top right-hand corner, as we are used to with the tunes in standard hymn collections. There’s an index to the tunes in the full music edition. If your cantor, or assembly, likes a particular setting, you can look it up by name to see when else it appears over the cycle. This should assist with planning and helping your musicians build repertoire.
 
We hope that the responses to the psalms can be learned easily by your assembly, perhaps after just one hearing. However, some communities prefer to include the response on a service sheet. We’ve given the responses on pages 176 to 189. These may be included in single-use service sheets if the appropriate copyright notice is included in the same document.