The Lord 'hath set His tabernacle in the sun,' says the Psalmist. The sun is Mary's heart.
Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It carries the sense of deliverance from an existence that has become compressed, confined and cramped. " God wants to set free, to make it possible for us to live open and loving lives with God and our neighbors. "I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free," wrote the psalmist.
The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law. '
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.
This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
