Tuesday, September 6 : Saint Augustine

Whoever asks “one thing” of the Lord, and “seeks it” (Ps 26[27]:4), is asking in security and certainty (…). It is the true and only happy life, the eternal contemplation of God’s delight in immortality and incorruptibility of body and spirit. All things are desired and not unreasonably asked for on account of this one thing. Whoever has this will have everything he can desire, nor can he desire anything he ought not to have. There is the fountain of life which we have now to desire in prayer, as long as we are living in hope and do not see the object of our hope. We are concealed “under the protection of his wings, who beholds all our desire” (Ps 35[36]:8), that we may be “inebriated with the abundance of his house, and drink of the torrent of his delight”, because “with him is the fountain of life, and in his light we shall see light” (Ps 35[36]:8 f.). Then our desire will be filled with good, and we shall have no need of seeking anything with tears, we shall have only joyful possession. Still, as it concerns the “peace which passes all understanding” (Phil 4:7), we “know not how to pray for it even it as we ought” (Rm 8:26). For we are totally ignorant of that which we are unable to think of as it is. (…) The apostle Paul writes: “The Spirit comes to help us in our infirmity. For we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the same Spirit pleads for us with ineffable groanings,” (Rm 8:25 f.).
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