The world is blessed that this man, this man who speaks like one of the Fathers, is the Pope.
Ad te levavi. A prayer in affliction, with confidence in God. A gradual canticle.
1 To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. 2 Behold as the eyes of the servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us. 3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt. 4 For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.
1 canticum graduum ad te levavi oculos meos qui habitas in caelo 2 ecce sicut oculi servorum in manibus dominorum suorum sicut oculi ancillae in manibus dominae eius ita oculi nostri ad Dominum Deum nostrum donec misereatur nostri 3 miserere nostri Domine miserere nostri quia multum repleti sumus despectione 4 quia multum repleta est anima nostra obprobrium abundantibus et despectio superbis