Augustine Day by Day: February 20

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February 20

Hold Fast to the Love of God

eal love of God will not be in you if the love of the world prevails in you. Hold fast rather to the love of God, so that as God is eternal you too will live forever. For each of us is such as our love is.

Do you love the world? Then you will be the earth. Do you love God? What shall I say? That you will be a god? I dare not say this on my own authority, and so let us hear Holy Scripture: "I have said: you are gods and all of you children of the Most High."

-- Sermon on John 2, 8

Prayer. Lord, teach me what I should teach, teach me what I should hold fast.

-- Letter 166, 10

Tradition Day By Day

The Augustinians - St. Thomas of Villanova Province

From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Augustine Day by Day: Minute Meditations for Every Day Taken from the Writings of Saint Augustine. Catholic Book Publishing Co. New York, 1986.

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