St. Augustine, Doctor of Grace, Pray For Us!!!!

The Confessions of Saint Augustine, bishop
O Eternal Truth, true love and beloved eternity

Urged to reflect upon myself, I entered under your guidance the innermost places of my being; but only because you had become my helper was I able to do so. I entered, then, and with the vision of my spirit, such as it was, I saw the incommutable light far above my spiritual ken and transcending my mind: not this common light which every carnal eye can see, nor any light of the same order; but greater, as though this common light were shining much more powerfully, far more brightly, and so extensively as to fill the universe. The light I saw was not the common light at all, but something different, utterly different, from all those things. Nor was it higher than my mind in the sense that oil floats on water or the sky is above the earth; it was exalted because this very light made me, and I was below it because by it I was made. Anyone who knows truth knows this light…

…O eternal Truth, true Love, and beloved Eternity, you are my God, and for you I sigh day and night...

…Accordingly I looked for a way to gain the strength I needed to enjoy you, but I did not find it until I embraced the mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who is also God, supreme over all things and blessed for ever...

…Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!
Lo, you were within,
but I outside, seeking there for you,
and upon the shapely things you have made
I rushed headlong – I, misshapen.
You were with me, but I was not with you.
They held me back far from you,
those things which would have no being,
were they not in you.
You called, shouted, broke through my deafness;
you flared, blazed, banished my blindness;
you lavished your fragrance, I gasped; and now I pant for you;
I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst;
you touched me, and I burned for your peace.

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“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future” and St. Augustine epitomizes this phrase. I encourage you to learn more about his life and journey and do not let the chains of past or current sins bind you! Be set free! Our Lady Undoer of Knots pray for us! Go to our Blessed Mother, the most Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of God and to St. Augustine and ask they intercede on your behalf to the throne of our Almighty and Merciful God for your healing and transformation now!!!!