by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
In this present life, this pilgrimage, this light of faith which, compared to the darkness of the gentiles, is called day, but in comparison to that day when we see God face to face, is still night my prayer will pave the way toward you. Enarrationes in psalmos...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
We would not know darkness if we were all the time in the dark; but the knowledge of the light helps us recognize the contrary. De duabus animabus 8,10
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The wicked insult the good, saying: “What advantage do you have by believing? Are you richer because you have Christ?” Let the true faithful respond: “We are still in the night; what we possess is not yet seen”… Bear with the night and...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
My faith, which you have enkindled before my feet in the night, says to it: “Why are you sad, O my soul, and why do you trouble me? Hope in the Lord. His word is a lamp unto your feet.” Hope and persevere, until the night, the mother of the wicked, passes,...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
We still walk in the night and keep vigil by the light of the prophetic lamp. Something is promised to us that is the object of our hope. Enarrationes in psalmos 143,11
