Benedicta Ward SLG
The central place the psalms hold in Christian worship stems from their use in Jewish worship and from their applicability to the whole range of human experience. As a monk and a scholar, Bede knew the psalms thoroughly and in his Abbreviated Psalter (included in the text) made his own innovative contribution to the devotional use of the 'Songs of David' and to their use in the prayer which goes beyond words.
