Sunday, February 11 : Saint Augustine

May the glory of God increase in us and our own glory decrease that even our glory may increase in God! For this is what the apostle says, this is what Holy Scripture says: “Let whoever glories, glory in the Lord” (1Cor 1,31). Will you glory in yourself? You will grow; but grow worse in your evil. And someone who grows worse is actually growing less. Let God, then, who is ever perfect, grow, and let him grow in you. For the more you know and understand God, the more God seems to be growing in you even though he himself does not grow, being ever perfect. You understood something a little yesterday, you understand better today, tomorrow you will understand even more: it is the very light of God increasing in you as if thus God, who is ever perfect, were increasing. Someone is blind whose eyes have just been healed. This person begins to see a glimmer of light, the next day he sees more, and the third day still more. To such a person the light would seem to grow; yet the light is perfect, whether he see it or not. This is also how it is with the inner self: it makes progress in God and God appears to be increasing in it, whereas it is growing less in itself so as to fall from its own glory and arise in the glory of God.

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