Vatican City, Dec 2, 2003 / 22:00 pm
Commenting on Psalm 113 A, “Miracles of the Exodus from Egypt,” Pope John Paul II said this Wednesday during the general audience that God sustains human beings while they journey through the “desert of history.”
The Pope has been commenting the psalms and canticles that the Church prays in Vespers of the Liturgy of the Hours. In September, the Pope concluded commenting on the psalms and canticles of Laudes.
The Pontiff said Psalm113 celebrates the “liberation of Israel from the oppression of the Egyptian Pharaoh” which is a “symbol of another more radical and universal liberation.”
In the psalm, the Holy Father said, the exodus of Israel is described up to “the entrance into the promised land which is God’s ‘sanctuary’, or the place where He is present in the midst of the people.”