Audacity and prayer aren't words we associate together, at least not with prayer as most of us have known it. These prayers are audacious, though. Those praying them hold nothing back. Through prayer, these writers lay before God the whole of their experience. From despair's depths to victory's jubilation, the psalms give voice to it all. Written as corporate prayers and hymns, the psalms were used originally in Israel's ancient Temples. They have found a place in countless congregations since . "I welcome the translation of the Vulgate . . . The Latin language and particularly the Vulgate have had an enormous impact on the Christian Church and our liturgical and theological formation." - Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston