Praying the psalms puts us in touch with ourselves and with a loving and caring god. besides, praying the psalms constitutes a great privailege, deeping as it does our prayer and enriching as it does our lives with profound joy and abundant spiritual benedits. The psalms are a precious treasure, and a poetic and spiritual patrimony of humanity. The manifest the beauty of faith and devotion and express the whole range of attitudes and sentiments of all humanity.