CCC 2641

"[Address] one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart."¹²⁴ Eph 5:19; Col 3:16. Like the inspired writers of the New Testament, the first Christian communities read the Book of Psalms in a new way, singing in it the mystery of Christ. In the newness of the Spirit, they also composed hymns and canticles in the light of the unheard - of event that God accomplished in his Son: his Incarnation, his death which conquered death, his Resurrection, and Ascension to the right hand of the Father.¹²⁵ Cf. Phil 2:6-11; Col 1:15-20; Eph 5:14; 1 Tim 3:16; 6:15-16; 2 Tim 2:11-13. Doxology, the praise of God, arises from this "marvelous work" of the whole economy of salvation.¹²⁶ Cf. Eph 1:3-14; Rom 16:25-27; Eph 3:20-21; Jude 24-25.