“The divine royalty is not detached and haughty. Those characteristics may recur in the exercise of human power. God expresses His regality in bending over the most fragile and defenceless creatures”. Those words were spoken by Benedict XVI. During today’s general hearing, the Pope went on meditating about Psalm 144, the subject of last Wednesday’s catechesis. He lingered over the second part, in which “the psalmist pays attention to the love which the Lord especially assigns to the poor and the weak”. “First of all – explained the Pope, – God is a father, upholding those who stagger and getting up again those who fell into the dust and humiliation”. Therefore, the human beings “long for the Lord, nearly as hungry beggars”, to whom God “offers the food they need to live, like a caring parent”. In this way, “Justice” and “holiness” are “two typical adjectives for illustrating the alliance existing between God and His people”, because “they express the justice that is meant to save the man and to free him from evil, as well as the faith that is a sign of the love greatness of the Lord”. “Therefore, the last word of the Psalmist is the one with which he opens his hymn”, concluded the Pope, that is, an invitation “to praise and bless the Lord and His name, that is, his living and holy person that operates and saves the man, in the world and in history”. And the divine appeal is “to combine the praying believer with any creatures receiving the gift of life”.
