Today is the feast of St. Augustine, the lustful heretic who through the prayers of his mother St. Monica was converted and became one of the greatest of Catholic theologians, philosophers, and saints.
Augustine and Monica
In a beautiful passage from his Confessions, Augustine praises God and reflects on how much of his life he avoided the only Person who could truly fulfill the longing that is in every human heart:
Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new! Late have I loved you! Behold, you were within and I was out abroad, searching there for you. Deformed, I plunged into the fair forms
that you had made. You were with me, but I was not with you. I was held back far from you by things, which would not themselves be if they were not in you. You called, you shouted, and you burst open my deafness. You flashed, you shone in radiance, and you drove away my blindness. You breathed forth your fragrance, and I drew my breath and sighed for you. I tasted, and now I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.
May St. Augustine inspire each of us to reject sin and temptation and make the Divine Beauty the center of our lives and joys.
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Author: Catherine Salgado
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