These tapes are a prayerbook in sound. For some people who are no longer able to read their prayers or perhaps to say their breviary themselves, these cassettes may be an absolute necessity. The sick, the elderly, the visually impaired, the incapacitated, the convalescing, and the dying can still pray the psalms as recorded on these cassettes. Some nursing homes use these tapes routinely. These practical aids to prayer have proved to be a most effective and consoling therapy.
For other people, these tapes may be just another extremely helpful way to begin to pray. Psalms are for busy people who have less time to pray. With cassettes, prayer can be as simple and easy as turning on your tape recorder. Sometimes the problem of praying is getting started, shifting gears when you have time, trying to concentrate, finding words to fit where you are, helping your mind and heart to get where you want to go.
No matter where you are, in the kitchen or the car, resting or jogging, at home or at work, usually there is some kind of tape player that can be made available. Turn on your recorder and instantly you are surrounded by the best prayers of the Old and New Testaments. The psalms immediately set the scene for prayer. With little need for preparation or preambles, they get to the point and lift your mind and heat directly to God! Then you will find yourself caught up in praise, gratitude, petition, longing, joy, sorrow, repentance, grief, love, peace, and union with God.
