Ad Jesum per te, Maria : 13/33

The Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By way of preparation for the great Feast of the Annunciation, I am re-posting a daily commentary on each of the Psalms of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin. The commentary includes text published by Father Ethelred L. Taunton in 1903.

 

To read the commentary on today's Psalm, click on the following link:

 

👉  Psalm 62

Previous Psalms

Psalm 8 : Psalm 18 : Psalm 23 : Psalm 44 : Psalm 45 : Psalm 86 : 

Psalm 92 : Psalm 94 : Psalm 95 : Psalm 96 : Psalm 97 : Psalm 99

👈 Taken from a book of hours, this is an image of King David, author of the Psalms, by Willem Vrelant (early 1460s), Bruges, Belgium.

Here is an excerpt from the commentary:

Deus, Deus, meus: ad Te de luce vigilo. 

O God, my God : from daybreak do I watch unto Thee.

My God. The repetition of the name of God and the claiming Him for the Psalmist’s very own denote,

observes St. John Chrysostom, deep love and eager pressing towards God, to the neglect of all earthly things. It

is therefore taken chiefly of Him Who alone could, with truth, call God His Own, as being One with Him,

consubstantial, co-eternal. Jesus did use these words, My God, in that mysterious cry from the cross : My God,

My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me ?

 

From day-break do I watch unto Thee. He Who made the Light rose with it on the first Easter morning. The

words are spoken of the faithful soul which turns eagerly to the first rays of the light and opens its powers to the

Sun of Righteousness, to work for Him and to be filled with His warmth. There is, says St. Augustine, a sleep of

the soul as there is a sleep of the body. This last we all ought to have ; but let us take care that our soul sleep not,

for sin is the sleep of the soul. Good for the body is sleep, which serves for the health thereof ; but the soul’s

sleep is forgetfulness of its Maker. Therefore doth the Apostle say : Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the

dead ; and Christ shall give thee light. Was the Apostle waking up one oppressed with bodily sleep ? Nay, but

he was waking up a soul sleeping, in order that she might be enlightened by Christ. And therefore doth the

Spouse in the Canticles answer to this appeal : I sleep, but my heart is waking 

Prayers 

The following prayers follow the model written by St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and are recited in preparation for the renewal of consecration* to Lord Jesus Christ our King, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the Feast of the Annunciation. *PEEKPTEE&A[E]

Litany of the Holy Ghost

Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Ave Maris Stella

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The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.