A recitation in Latin of the Twelfth Gradual Psalm. Follow text Below.

[Psalm 130] (131)

{130:1} Domine non est exaltatum cor meum: neque elati sunt oculi mei. Neque ambulavi in magnis: neque in mirabilibus super me.
{130:1} O Lord, my heart has not been exalted, and my eyes have not been raised up. Neither have I walked in greatness, nor in wonders beyond me.

{130:2} Si non humiliter sentiebam: sed exaltavi animam meam: Sicut ablactatus est super matre sua, ita retributio in anima mea.
{130:2} When I was not humble in thought, then I lifted up my soul. Like one who has been weaned from his mother, so was I recompensed in my soul.

{130:3} Speret Israel in Domino, ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.
{130:3} Let Israel hope in the Lord, from this time forward and even forever.

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto,: Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Praying the fifteen Gradual Psalms (so called because they mark the steps, as it were, of the pilgrims to the Temple of old; mystically, they signify the active life, the ascent of the soul toward God, and progress in the spiritual life) is an ancient, even a pre-Christian devotion - it is said that Holy Mary prayed them in this manner when she came into the Temple, she who is the model of all Christians and the image of Holy Church. As it says in Psalm 83:6-8, Beatus vir cujus est auxilium abs te: ascensiones in corde suo disposuit,... ibunt de virtute in virtutem: videbitur Deus deorum in Sion (Blest the man whose help is from Thee: he hath prepared goings-up in his heart... they shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion). All of Psalm 83 might well be read as a commentary on these pilgrim songs, going up to Jerusalem - that is, in this life, into Holy Church, an image and foretaste (being the Mystical Body of Christ) of our final goal, which is after death to enter Heaven.
Only he who is strengthened supernaturally by grace, beyond all human aid, can do so - his heart is prepared and he thereby prepares it to ascend: Sursum corda - Habemus ad Dominum. Ascending the fifteen steps, in faith and deed, now in mystery, in Holy Church united, God shall be perceived: just as one day, face to face, the Beatific Vision shall be seen, by those who by grace persevere unto the end. If even now we abide in faith, hope and charity, God is in our souls, and so the Kingdom of God - Heaven - is within (as Bl Elizabeth of the Trinity notes). From: [ Ссылка ]

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