Augustine
says in his Confessions: “How I wept when I heard your hymns and
canticles, being deeply moved by the sweet singing of your Church.
Those voices flowed into my ears, truth filtered into my heart, and
from my heart surged waves of devotion.” Indeed, who could fail to
be moved by those many passages in the psalms which set forth so
profoundly the infinite majesty of God, his omnipotence, his justice
and goodness and clemency, too deep for words, and all the other
infinite qualities of his that deserve our praise? Who could fail to
be roused to the same emotions by the prayers of thanksgiving to God
for blessings received by the petitions, so humble and confident, for
blessings still awaited, by the cries of a soul in sorrow for sin
committed? Who would not be fired wiht love as he looks on the
likeness of Christ, the redeemer, here so lovingly foretold? His was
“the voice” Augustine heard in every psalm, the voice of praise,
of suffering, of joyful expectation, of present distress.”
--
Pope Saint Pius X
on sacred Scripture from his apostolic consititution
Pope
Saint Pius X's patronage:
Society of Saint Pius X; Archdiocese of Atlanta, Georgia;
Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa; first communicants; Diocese of Great
Falls-Billings, Montana; Archdiocese of Kottayam, India;
Esperantists; pilgrims; Santa Luċija, Malta; Diocese of
Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri; Archdiocese of Zamboanga,
Philippines; emigrants from Treviso; Patriarchy of Venice; Catechists
