Apostles, and on the cross, just before He gave up the Ghost, He cried with a voice those words of the Compline psalm, which in His sacred childhood He had heard chanted in the Temple of Jerusalem, "In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum "; "Into Thy hands I commend My spirit."
It is not, therefore, to be wondered at, that the Psalms have, first in the Jewish Temple, and then around the Christian altar, formed the prayer of the Chosen People, the " Prayer of the Church," the "Divine Office," for now nearly three thousand years. — Crown of Jesus.
An excellent daily spiritual reading would be a combination of extracts from Holy Scripture, "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas a Kempis, and "he Lives of the Saints" (or St. Francis de Sales' "Devout Life"). A very serviceable book for this purpose is Le Masson's "Spiritual Reading for Every Day," edited by Kenelm Digby Best of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri.
