Today we remember St. Augustine, Bishop, "Doctor of Grace", Searcher, Discoverer, Defender of the Faith. A day after celebrating the Memorial of his mother, Monica, we give honor to her son, Augustine, the object of her tears, prayers and love. As brilliant as he was, he wandered intellectually from the real Truth and Beauty he sought, until he was, through God's grace, able to move from what he saw and reverenced in creation, to the Creator himself. In his classic Confessions, he admits his blindness, and though "late" did he discover the Truth, he gave himself totally to it. His mother's prayers, grace, God's hand, all worked together to bring about this "miraculous" conversion and give us this great saint, whose life serves as a needed inspiration for us today.
How many of us, our young adults, especially, are searching in the wrong places for the Goodness and Truth for which we hunger and thirst? We too are taken up with the created and blinded to the Creator. May Augustine's life help us to keep on searching as well as be ready for the moment whwn Truth and Beauty break through and help us to see clearly and give our total love to the Creator, who is Beauty and Truth.
Bro .Rene
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