Cries And Prayers

Ad ipsum clamavi ore meo. Sed clamor oris plerumque mendax est: et non semper verborum sonus affectum mentis enuntiat. Sequi ergo clamorem oris debet et sensus: et secutus est . Nam Propheta connexuit: Et exaltavi sub lingua mea: non in lingua, sed sub lingua : in occultis scilicet linguæ , et quodam intra se tacitæ voluntatis eloquio. Quod idipsum in Evangeliis Domino placuit dicenti: Intra in cubiculum tuum, et claude ostium tuum, et ora: et pater tuus qui videt in absconso, reddet tibi. Ergo nunc qui ore clamatus est, exaltatur sub lingua Deus Sanctus Hilarius Pictaviensis, Tractatus super Psalmos, Tractatus in Psalmum LXV Source: Migne PL 9.436a-b

To Him I cried out with my mouth. 1 But the cry of the mouth is often deceitful, and it is not always the case that the sound of the words proclaim the affection of the mind. Therefore something sensible should follow after the cry of the mouth, and it does follow, for the prophet adds, 'And I exalted beneath my tongue.' Not on the tongue, but under the tongue, in the hidden places of the tongue, and within himself with the speech of silent longing. Whence it pleased the Lord to say in the Gospel, 'Go into your room and close the door and pray, and your father who sees in secret shall reward you.' 2 Therefore now he who has cried out, let God be exalted beneath the tongue. Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Homilies on the Psalms, from Psalm 65 1 Ps 65.17 2 Mt 6.6