Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 70 The Presumption of Striking Another at Will
Mass: 1 Th 2:9-13; Resp Ps 139; Mt 23:27-32
Where can I go from your spirit? From your presence where can I flee?
HEART OF JESUS, IN WHOM ARE ALL THE TREASURES OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE,
HAVE MERCY ON US.
St Paul tells the Thessalonians that the word of God is at work in those who believe. Dear Lord, increase our faith so that your Word works in us, for "Whoever keeps the word of Christ, the love of God is truly perfected in him."
Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!
Lo, you were within, but I outside, seeking there for you, and upon the shapely things you have made. I rushed headlong-I, misshapen. You were with me. but I was not with you. They held me back far from you, those things which would have no being, were they not with you. You called, shouted, broke through my deafness; you flared, blazed, banished my blindness; you lavished your fragrance, I gasped; and now I pant for you; I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst; you touched me, and I burned for your peace.
(St Augustine, Confessions, 10, 27)
SAINT AUGUSTINE, PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: Another view of Ostia Antica where St Augustine was with his mother St Monica when she died. Here is the market square.
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