It is clear that the Church reads this psalm as a prophetic and poetic depiction of the spousal relationship of Christ and Church. She thus acknowledges Christ as the fairest of men; the graciousness poured upon his lips refers to the inner beauty of his words, to the glory of this message. So it is not merely the external beauty of the Redeemer’s appearance that is praised: rather, the beauty of truth appears in him, the beauty of God himself, who powerfully draws us and inflicts on us the wound of Love, as it were, a holy Eros that enables us to go forth, with and in the Church, his Bride,
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