Praise & Psalmody - Week 1: Tuesday

Psalms 8:3

From the mouths of babies and nursing infants, You prepared praise…

Cassiodorus of Calabria, Explanation Of The Psalms 8.3

The meaning is this: you are worthy of praise not only from those who are perfect who know you fully, but you are proclaimed with the mouths of beginners in the faith and little children.… The psalmist professes that even infants proclaim God. By this he means those who have begun to come to the Lord in newness of faith, so that this wisdom might appear to have been conferred through God’s intervention rather than to have been gleaned through human effort.