by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Confusion took over me when the light of your knowledge was taken away. Enarrationes in psalmos 29,8
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
While I was deliberating whether I would serve the Lord my God now, as I had long purposed to do, it was I who willed and it was also I who was unwilling. In either case, it was I. I neither willed with my whole will nor was I wholly unwilling. And so I was at war...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Thus by the burdens of this world I was sweetly weighed down, just as a man often is in sleep. Thoughts wherein I meditated upon you were like the efforts of those who want to arouse themselves but, still overcome by deep drowsiness, sink back again. Just as no man...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
When two are in prison, what a difference between the culprit and the visitor, the guilty causes his imprisonment, while the visitor helps humanity . Hence in this mortal life we are guilty of confinement. The compassionate Lord descended upon us as Redeemer not as...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Whence such an anomaly? And why should it be? The mind commands the body, and the body obeys. The mind commands itself and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved and there is such readiness that the command is scarcely distinguished from the obedience in...
