§ 2649
A oração de louvor, totalmente desinteressada, dirige-se a Deus: canta-O por Si próprio, glorifica-O, não tanto pelo que Ele faz, mas sobretudo porque ELE É.
Oratio laudis, prorsus gratuita, fertur in Deum; Ei canit propter Se Ipsum, Eidem gloriam reddit, non ob id quod Ipse facit, sed quia IPSE EST. (102) Cf Io 14,26. (103) Cf Lc 24,27.44. (104) Cf Eph 1,3-14; 2 Cor 1,3-7; 1 Pe 1,3-9. (105) Cf 2 Cor 13,13; Rom 15,5-6.13; Eph 6,23-24.(106) Cf Ps 95,1-6.(107) Cf Ps 24,9-10.(108) Sanctus Augustinus, Enarratio in Psalmum 62, 16: CCL 39, 804 (PL 36, 758).(109) Cf Rom 15,30; Col 4,12. (110) Cf 1 Io 1,7–2,2. (111) Cf Mt 6,10.33; Lc 11,2.13. (112) Cf Act 6,6; 13,3. (113) Cf Rom 10,1; Eph 1,16-23; Phil 1,9-11; Col 1,3-6; 4,3-4.12. (114) Cf Io 14,13. (115) Cf Iac 1,5-8. (116) Cf Eph 5,20; Phil 4,6-7; Col 3,16-17; 1 Thess 5,17-18.(117) Cf Rom 8,34; 1 Io 2,1; 1 Tim 2,5-8. (118) Cf Sanctus Stephanus pro suis orans tortoribus sicut Iesus: cf Act 7,60; Lc 23,28.34. (119) Cf Act 12,5; 20,36; 21,5; 2 Cor 9,14. (120) Cf Eph 6,18-20; Col 4,3-4; 1 Thess 5,25. (121) Cf 2 Thess 1,11; Col 1,3; Phil 1,3-4. (122) Cf Rom 12,14. (123) Cf Rom 10,1. (124) Cf Rom 8,16. (125) Cf Act 2,47. (126) Cf Act 3,9. (127) Cf Act 4,21. (128) Cf Col 3,16. (129) Cf Phil 2,6-11; Col 1,15-20; Eph 5,14; 1 Tim 3,16; 6,15-16; 2 Tim 2,11-13. (130) Cf Eph 1,3-14; 3,20-21; Rom 16,25-27; Ids 24-25.(131) Cf Apc 4,8-11; 5,9-14; 7,10-12. (132) Cf Apc 6,10. (133) Cf Apc 18,24. (134) Cf Apc 19,1-8. (135) Cf Iac 1,17. (136) Cf Mal 1,11.