Saturday, August 3 : Saint Augustine

If to anyone the tumult of the flesh has fallen silent; if the images of earth, water, and air are quiescent; if the heavens themselves are shut out and the very soul itself is making no sound and is surpassing itself by no longer thinking about itself; if all dreams and visions in the imagination are excluded; if all language and every sign and everything transitory is silent – for if anyone could hear them, this is what all of them would be saying: “We did not make ourselves, we were made by him who abides for eternity” (Ps 100[99],3.5) – if after this declaration they were to keep silence, having directed our ears to him that made them, then he alone would speak not through them bu through himself. We would hear his word, not through the tongue of flesh, nor through the voice of an angel, nor through the sound of thunder (Ex 19,16), nor through the obscurity of a symbolic utterance. Him whom in these things we love we would hear in person without their mediation… and in a flash of mental energy attain the eternal wisdom which abides beyond all things… Is not this the meaning of: “Enter into the joy of your Lord”? (Mt 25,21).

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