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Late Have I Loved Thee

Featured December 15, 2022

North African Bish­op St. Augus­tine was in his 30s when he became a Chris­t­ian. In this prayer he laments his slow­ness to open his heart to God. Though his love is ​“late,” it is full of vig­or and beauty.

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By Promise and Prophecy

Featured December 7, 2017

As we look toward the Sec­ond Sun­day of Advent, we’d like to share this thought­ful piece on God’s promis­es and their ful­fill­ment tak­en from Augus­tine of Hip­po’s dis­course on the psalms. We hope your Advent is con­tin­u­ing to be a rich and reflec­tive season.

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The Tongue Can No Man Tame

Featured June 8, 2017

Augus­tine weighs in on the theme of prac­tic­ing pru­dence in speech (and action) with this piece on sub­mit­ting our tongues (and our­selves) to the train­ing of the great Tamer until the day we ​“need no more His tam­ing hand, but only to be pos­sessed by His exceed­ing mercy​.” Enjoy!

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The Faithfulness of Monica

Featured May 9, 2017

For Moth­er’s Day or any day, it is worth­while to reflect upon what the faith­ful prayers of a moth­er can effect in her chil­dren’s lives. Augus­tine of Hip­po had no dearth of sins and fol­ly in his life, but his moth­er, Mon­i­ca, nev­er gave up on him. Part of his ten­der trib­ute to her awaits us today.

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Prayer Journaling: Styles and Examples

Featured January 31, 2017

When we con­sid­er prayer jour­nal­ing, it helps to remem­ber Chris Hal­l’s advice to look for praise­wor­thy mod­els to emu­late when train­ing for spir­i­tu­al growth. Augus­tine, Julian, and Blaise have come to share some exam­ples of dif­fer­ent styles of engag­ing in the divine con­ver­sa­tion. Enjoy!