"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
A while back I had a competition to win some bumper stickers. I designed them to replicate a bumper sticker described by Fr. Donald Calloway in a talk that he gave here in San Diego. I asked the winners to send in a photo of themselves or a photo of their car, sporting their their new sticker. Here are the winners:
Yesterday was the Feast of St. Monica, which means today we remember one of my favourite Saints, the Patron Saint of Restless Hearts (and probably Restless Pilgrims too), Early Church Father, St. Augustine:
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would have not been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace. – St. Augustine