119 Man Thirsts for God Wednesday General Audience from April 25th 1. Psalm 62, on which we will reflect today, is the Psalm of mystical love, which celebrates total adherence to God, beginning with an almost physical longing until it reaches its fullness in an intimate and everlasting embrace.
Prayer becomes desire, thirst and hunger, because it involves the soul and body.
The liturgy proposes to us the two first strophes of the Psalm which are centered, precisely, on the symbols of thirst and hunger, while the third strophe presents the dark horizon of the divine judgment on evil, which contrasts with the luminosity and gentleness of the rest of the Psalm. It is dawn, the sun is rising in the clear sky of the Holy Land and the man of prayer begins his day going to the temple to seek the light of God. Even when undergoing the dark night, we feel protected by the wings of God, as the ark of the covenant was covered by the wings of the cherubim. When reading this Psalm in light of the paschal mystery, the thirst and hunger that impel us toward God, find their fulfillment in the crucified and risen Christ, from whom we receive, through the gift of the Spirit and the Sacraments, the new life and the nourishment that sustains it. It is from the same food that we were formed and are nourished.