...For sharing provocative quotes. From St. Augustine's Confessions, on being a liberal arts university student:
"And what good did it do me that I, at a time when I was the vile slave of evil desires, read and understood for myself every book that I could lay my hands on which dealt with what are called the liberal arts? I could understand quite easily and without the aid of an instructor every work...But I did not use these gifts by making of them an offering to You...And now, my God, I do not blush to confess to you the mercies which you have shown me...O Lord our God...our strength, when it is from you, is strength indeed...Let us return to you now, Lord...Our home, which is your eternity, does not fall down when we are away from it" (4.16).
May the Lord bless us this Advent season as we "return" to Him, as we fix our eyes upon Heaven, our eternal "home." Amen.
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