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I had the same question when I started a little over a year ago. I cannot speak to rules or guidelines. I’ve read the General Instruction, but I don’t recall what it says on the subject. Now that I mention the General Instruction, I should go back and read that again, as I probably would absorb more of it now.Anyway, I can tell you where I’ve ended up.First, if you are in a place of silence and/or where speaking out loud would draw attention to yourself, it’s better to pray silently than not to pray.That said, when you pray the liturgy, you are not praying in your own person, rather in a chorus, whether present with you or distributed throughout the world. You are not praying your own words and thoughts, rather the words and thoughts of God and of the whole Church. Sometimes I think of it as me performing for God a play that has been written by God. Not like a Shakespearian actor. Not like that. This would be more like a child in a grade school play with a parent looking on. So I think it really should be out loud. I do read the actual readings in the Office of Readings silently, but the antiphons, psalms, and responsories are aloud.
May God be present on college campuses around The country, too Influence heart’s of Peace, Love, acceptance. God prevail upon our Christian heart’s. Praise be God
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I’m currently listening on Audible to “Christ in the Psalms” by Patrick Henry Reardon. I might want to buy a hardcopy, because I think it’s the sort of thing where I would like to have the psalm and the commentary side by side to go back and forth. It’s a good listen but frustrating in the car! I have “Morning and Evening Prayer: Meditations and Catechesis on Psalms and Canticles” by are two prior Popes. You could hardly get more authoritative than that, and I wish I could say that I’ve found it more helpful, but I have, unfortunately, found it somewhat dry and difficult to read. I listened to C.S. Lewis’ “Reflections on the Psalms” so long ago now that I can’t remember what was in it and what I got from other sources, but I think it helped me appreciate the breadth of emotion of the psalms, particularly some of the negative emotions. It is one thing to remember that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but there is also some benefit to be had in striving not to engender such thoughts in others by way of our own failings.