Good Friday, morning (Prayer Book) A prayer of Christ in His Passion, and His self-consecration to the Father. PSALM lv. _Exaudi, Deus_ A prayer of Christ in His loneliness and desolation, amidst the treachery of His enemies and especially of His false disciple. PSALM lvi. _Miserere mei, Deus_ Christ's complaint to the Father against the contradiction of sinners; His confidence in the Father's word, and His sure hope in His Resurrection. PSALM lvii. _Miserere mei, Deus_ Easter Day, morning (Prayer Book) The Psalm of Christ "glorified" through His Passion and Resurrection. PSALM lviii. _Si vere utique_ Christ's judgment upon sinners; the vindication of Divine justice. {120} PSALM lix. _Eripe me de inimicis_ A prayer of Christ in His Passion against the malice of His enemies; His denunciation of their impenitence; His hope of the Resurrection and the final vindication of Divine justice. PSALM lx. _Deus, repulisti nos_ A prayer of the scattered and persecuted Church, and the answer of the triumphant Christ (under the figure of David's victories). PSALM lxi. _Exaudi, Deus_ A prayer of the scattered Church, praying to be established on the rock of Christ; her confession of faith in the eternal royalty of Christ. PSALM lxii. _Nonne Deo?_ The Church's confidence in Christ her rock in contrast with the falsehood of the world and the deceitfulness of riches; her faith in the ultimate manifestation of the Divine justice. PSALM lxiii. _Deus, Deus meus_ A prayer of the exiled Church; her joy in worship, and her confidence in the sovereignty of Christ. PSALM lxiv. _Exaudi, Deus_ A prayer of Christ in His Passion; the {121} prediction of the overthrow of the Jewish nation, and the continual testimony of this overthrow to the truth of Christ. PSALM lxv. _Te decet hymnus_ The Church's hope of her heavenly inheritance in Christ, and of the regeneration of the earth by the river of His spiritual gifts. The Psalm seems to be a forecast of the joy and prosperity of "the new heaven and the new earth." PSALM lxvi. _Jubilate Deo_ Thanksgiving after a Storm at Sea (Prayer Book) The thanksgiving of the Church in the conversion of the world; she looks forward to the end of this world and her deliverance from its sufferings, and contemplates her entrance into the eternal worship of heaven. PSALM lxvii. _Deus misereatur_ Alternative to Nunc Dimittis; Holy Matrimony (Prayer Book) The joy of the Church in the conversion of the world to Christ; her hope of God's blessing upon all her works. PSALM lxviii. _Exurgat Deus_ Whitsun Day, morning (Prayer Book) The triumphant procession-hymn of the Catholic {122} Church in her progress through the world; rejoicing in the gifts of the ascended Christ, and in the hope of the conversion of the heathen. PSALM lxix. _Salvum me fac_ Matt. xxvii. 34; John ii. 17, xix. 28, 29; Rom. xv. 3. Good Friday, evening (Prayer Book)