by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
I am in this life and in this world; poor and pilgrim, groaning and without yet enjoying peace and I preach your peace. Enarrationes in psalmos 121,13
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Thus, therefore, I have considered the sicknesses of my sins in that threefold concupiscence, and I have called your right hand to bring me health. With a wounded heart I have looked upon your splendor, and struck back by it, I have said: Who can attain to it? “...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Yours it is to appeal, yours it is to groan, yours it is to confess; do not elate yourself, do not boast, do not glorify yourself with the laurels of your merits; because if there is anything you can enjoy, what do you have in you which you have not received?...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
But do you, O Lord my God, graciously hear me and turn your gaze upon me and see me and have mercy on me, and heal me. For in your sight I have become a riddle to myself, and that is my infirmity. Confessiones X, 33,50
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
You were a sinful man. O earth, when you sinned you heard: You are dust and unto dust you shall return! Let truth be born from you and let justice look down from heaven. Confess your sins and truth shall sprout from you. Enarrationes in psalmos 84,14
