A dialogue, as it were, between Christ and His Church. He asserts His sovereignty over the world, His justice, and its ultimate vindication.
PSALM lxxvi. Notus in Judæa
A Psalm of the victory of Christ; of "the wrath of the Lamb," and the final judgment of the world.
PSALM lxxvii. Voce mea ad Dominum
Like Ps. lxxiii., a Psalm of the struggles of faith. The thought of God's past work in His Church as revealed in history, and of His eternal years, is the Church's consolation when He seems to hide His face.
PSALM lxxviii. Attendite, popule
Matt. xiii. 35; cf. xxiii. 37
The voice of Christ recounting the history of His Church, His patience and mercy with backslidings, His many deliverances; ending with His own Incarnation and personal rule of His Church, under the figure of David's call to the throne.
PSALM lxxix. Deus, venerunt