The joy of the pilgrim Church in her great deliverance from the captivity of this world; her hope that through tribulation she will be made perfect. PSALM cxxvii. _Nisi Dominus_ Churching of Women (Prayer Book) A Psalm of the pilgrim Church confessing that her progress and her enlargement cannot be the fruit of human care and labour, but of the grace of Christ only. PSALM cxxviii. _Beati omnes_ Holy Matrimony (Prayer Book) A Psalm of the pilgrim Church celebrating the consecration of human life and labour through the Incarnation. {137} PSALM cxxix. _Sæpe expugnaverunt_ A Psalm of the warfare and persecutions of the pilgrim Church, and of the vanity and fruitlessness of the attacks of her enemies. PSALM cxxx. _De profundis_ Ash Wednesday, evening (Prayer Book) A Psalm of the sorrows, the ceaseless watching, and the undying hope of the pilgrim Church. Especially appropriate to the souls of departed Christians, the Church Expectant, who wait for the second Advent. PSALM cxxxi. _Domine, non est_ A Psalm of the pilgrim Church expressing her humility, her submission to revelation, her unceasing trust in Christ. PSALM cxxxii. _Memento, Domine_ Christmas Day, evening (Prayer Book) A Psalm in which the pilgrim Church joyfully commemorates before God the Incarnation of His Son, and His age-long indwelling within her; and His gift in the Eucharist (ver. 16); and expresses her faith in the eternal sovereignty of Christ. PSALM cxxxiii. _Ecce, quam bonum!_ A Psalm in which the pilgrim Church expresses her joy in her essential unity, the gift of the unction {138} of the Holy Spirit poured upon her from the ascended Christ. PSALM cxxxiv. _Ecce nunc_ A Psalm of the pilgrim Church as she contemplates her entry into the eternal sanctuary, the heavenly city of Christ, and the fellowship of the angels in their unceasing praise. PSALM cxxxv. _Laudate Nomen_ The Church's thanksgiving for her calling in Christ, and the eternal rule of Christ over nature and man; she expresses her confidence in the living Christ Who dwells within her, in contrast with this world's idolatries. PSALM cxxxvi. _Confitemini_ A Psalm of the Church's thanksgiving for the eternal mercy of Christ, as seen in creation, and in her own history and deliverances, and also in His abiding gift of the Eucharist (ver. 25). PSALM cxxxvii. _Super flumina_ A Psalm of the sorrows of the Church in her captivity in this world, where she is persecuted and misunderstood. She expresses her loyalty to her heavenly calling, her desire for "Jerusalem which is above," and her warfare with Babylon, for whose overthrow she confidently waits. {139} PSALM cxxxviii. _Confitebor tibi_ A Psalm of Christ and His saints, giving praise for the Resurrection, the hope of the conversion of the world, the Church's final deliverance, and the "redemption of the body." PSALM cxxxix. _Domine, probasti_