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Wise Words on Wednesday: Patron of Restless Hearts

August 28, 2013 pilgrim 2 comments

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

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Wise Words on Wednesday: Our address

August 21, 2013 pilgrim Leave a comment

henry-nouwen

“One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there. We know where we belong, but we keep being pulled away in many directions, as if we were still homeless. ‘All these other things’ keep demanding our attention. They lead us so far from home that we eventually forget our true address”

– Henry Nowen, “Making All Things New”

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Wise Words on Wednesday: Real Depth

August 14, 2013 pilgrim One comment

You are as much a real person as you are deep. As with the depths of a diamond, the interior is twice as important as the surface. There are people who are all facade, like a house left unfinished when the funds run out. They have the entrance of a palace but the inner rooms of a cottage.

– The Art of Wordly Wisdom, Balthasar Gracian, 17th Century