1. A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to thee, O Lord: I will sing,

2. and I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

3. I did not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities.

4. The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know.

5. The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

6. My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the man that walked in the perfect way, he served me.

7. He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.

8. In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.





“Não queremos aceitar o fato de que o sofrimento é necessário para nossa alma e de que a cruz deve ser o nosso pão cotidiano. Assim como o corpo precisa ser nutrido, também a alma precisa da cruz, dia a dia, para purificá-la e desapegá-la das coisas terrenas. Não queremos entender que Deus não quer e não pode salvar-nos nem santificar-nos sem a cruz. Quanto mais Ele chama uma alma a Si, mais a santifica por meio da cruz.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina