1. For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:

2. The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

3. Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

4. I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

5. Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

6. The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

7. The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.





Como distinguir uma tentação de um pecado e como estar certo de que não se pecou? – perguntou um penitente. Padre Pio sorriu e respondeu: “Como se distingue um burro de um homem? O burro tem de ser conduzido; o homem conduz a si mesmo!” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina