A confession of faith in the Name of God; the Church's prayer for deliverance from temptation and adversity. PSALM xxvi. _Judica me, Domine_ A prayer of Christ as He approaches His Passion; and of the Christian priest when about to offer the Holy Eucharist. PSALM xxvii. _Dominus illuminatio_ The hope of Christ and His Church in the Fatherhood of God; a prophecy of the Resurrection and the Holy Eucharist (vv. 6, 7). PSALM xxviii. _Ad te, Domine_ The prayer of Christ for deliverance from His enemies; and for His Church (ver. 10). PSALM xxix. _Afferte Domino_ The Church's thanksgiving for the sovereignty of Christ over all the powers of nature, and over His Church. PSALM xxx. _Exaltabo te, Domine_ A thanksgiving of Christ and His Church for the Resurrection. {114} PSALM xxxi. _In te, Domine, speravi_ S. Luke xxiii. 46 Christ's prayer in His Passion and Crucifixion; His exhortation to His Church (vv. 26, 27). PSALM xxxii. _Beati, quorum_ Rom. iv. 6-8. Ash Wednesday, morning (Prayer Book) The Church's confession of sin, and the blessedness of forgiveness through faith in Christ. (See on Ps. vi.) PSALM xxxiii. _Exultate, justi_ The Church's thanksgiving for creation and redemption, and for her own exceeding blessedness in being called to be the people of the Lord. PSALM xxxiv. _Benedicam Domino_ A thanksgiving of Christ for His Resurrection. His call to His Church to obedience, to holiness, to courage. PSALM xxxv. _Judica, Domine_ A prayer of Christ against the persecution and false witness of His enemies, and on behalf of those who love Him. PSALM xxxvi. _Dixit infustus_ The Church's witness to the awfulness of sin; {115} her confession of hope in the blessedness of the life eternal in contrast with the doom of the ungodly. PSALM xxxvii. _Noli cemulari_ A Psalm of a proverbial character; the testimony of the Church's experience of the justice of God, in spite of the apparent prosperity of the wicked: it expresses the _restfulness_ of the life of faith. _Cf._ ver. ii with Matt. v. 5. PSALM xxxviii. _Domine, ne in furore_ Ash Wednesday, morning (Prayer Book) A Psalm of Christ bearing in loneliness and silence the burden of human sin, confessing it on man's behalf to the Father, and praying for our salvation. PSALM xxxix. _Dixi, custodiam_ Burial of the Dead (Prayer Book) Continues in some respects the tone of the previous Psalm. It may be regarded as a Psalm of Christ bearing the sorrow of man's mortality, and interceding on man's behalf with the Father. PSALM xl. _Expectans expectavi_ Heb. x. 5-10. Good Friday, morning (Prayer Book) A Psalm of Christ's Incarnation, Passion, Sin-bearing, and Resurrection; it expresses the {116} secret of His Atonement (see above, pp. 61, 62) and His fulfilment of O.T. prophecy (ver. 10). PSALM xli. _Beatus qui intelligit_ John xiii. 18 A Psalm of Christ's compassion; and of the treachery of His enemies, especially of Judas.