Augustine Day by Day – 11/22
Pine for the Homeland
Now let us hear, brothers and sisters, let us hear and sing. Let us pine for the city where we are citizens. By pining, we are already there. We have already cast our hope, like an anchor, on that coast.
I sing of somewhere else, not of here; for I sing with my heart, not my flesh. The citizens of Babylon hear the sound of the flesh; the founder of Jerusalem hears the tune of the heart. -- Commentary on Psalm 64, 3
Prayer
Lord, let us make our home again in you and thus avoid being lost. Long ago we left it--for what is our home but your Eternity, which does not disappear because we have deserted it! -- Confessions 4, 16
Now let us hear, brothers and sisters, let us hear and sing. Let us pine for the city where we are citizens. By pining, we are already there. We have already cast our hope, like an anchor, on that coast.
I sing of somewhere else, not of here; for I sing with my heart, not my flesh. The citizens of Babylon hear the sound of the flesh; the founder of Jerusalem hears the tune of the heart. -- Commentary on Psalm 64, 3
Prayer
Lord, let us make our home again in you and thus avoid being lost. Long ago we left it--for what is our home but your Eternity, which does not disappear because we have deserted it! -- Confessions 4, 16
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