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Fifteen psalms — namely,Psalms 119-133 (inHebrew 120-134) — bear a Hebrew inscription which is rendered in theVulgate ascanticum graduum, and translated in theDouay Version as "a gradual canticle". TheAuthorized Version calls them "songs of degrees"; the Revised Version, "songs of ascents". Of the various conjectual explanations, the most probable regards them as psalms recited when going up to the annual festivals in Jerusalem, pilgrim-songs (seePSALMS). The days on which the Gradual psalms were formerly recited are still indicated in the Roman Breviary, but theobligation of reciting them was removed bySt. Pius V.
APA citation.Corbett, J.(1909).Gradual Psalms. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06718a.htm
MLA citation.Corbett, John."Gradual Psalms."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 6.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1909.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06718a.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph P. Thomas.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. September 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor.Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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