St. Augustine, How Should We Praise God For His Gifts?
Question 041. Part II
What is praise?
See whether this man, upon meditating on your works, has turned his gaze towards the works and away from the Worker. Observe whether or not he has descended from the Maker of all things to the things he has made. For what he has made has been made as a ladder to ascend to him, not descend […]
St. Augustine, What is Praise?
Question 041. Part I
What is praise?
Do not think that he can be praised enough whose greatness is endless. Should not then your praise be endless since he has no end?… Praise of God sets you on your way and should determine what you ought to love and what you should fear; what you should seek, and what you should avoid…The silence of […]
St. Augustine, How Can Song Be A Prayer?
Question 040.
Can song really be counted as prayer?
Singing is proper to one in love… Jubilee is a sort of sound which means that the heart wants to give birth to that which cannot be uttered. And who deserves such jubilation if not the ineffable God? And ineffable is that which cannot be said or even touched. What remains if not jubilation in that […]
St. Augustine, How is the Liturgy the Source and Summit of Prayer?
Question 039.
How is the liturgy the “source and the summit”?
Man’s soul struggles onward towards that it loves so that it might rest upon reaching it. When the soul finds its delight in God, there she finds true, certain, eternal rest, for which it has vainly sought in other objects.
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