Augustine For Today

JULY 10 – SAINT RUFINA
 “When what we ask God for is something good, we should persevere in praying for it until panting with desire, we receive it. You see, that’s why God puts off our requests, to stimulate our desires.”
            Sermon 154A, 5
 

Augustine For Today

JULY 8 – SAINTS AQUILA AND PRISCILLA
 “May the one who formed us reform us, the one who created us recreate us, the one who installed us restore us to perfection.”
            Sermon 301A, 2

Augustine For Today

JULY 7 – SAINT EDDA
 “Don’t let pride swell in you, let it shrivel instead and rot. Be disgusted by it, throw it out. Christ is looking for a humble Christian.”
            Sermon 70A, 2

Augustine For Today

JULY 6 – SAINT MARIA GORETTI

 “I pray to you, my God, for to turn from you is to fall; to turn to you is
to rise again; to remain in you is to stand firm. Come to me in your
mercy.”

            Soliloquies 1, 3

Augustine For Today

JULY 4 – BLESSED PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI
 “The love of truth seeks out holy leisure, while the compelling force of love takes on necessary activity.”
            City of God 19, 19
 

Augustine For Today

JULY 3 – SAINT THOMAS, THE APOSTLE
 “Directly through the man Christ you go to the God Christ. The Word that was far from you became man in your midst.”
            Sermon 261, 7

Augustine For Today

JULY 2 – SAINT URBAN

 “We were sick and could not move. And so the Physician came to the
patient; the way was prepared for the wanderers. Let us be saved by him;
let us walk through him.”

            On 1 John 10, 1