Friday, August 13, 2004

Augustine Day by Day - August 12 - You Loved Me First

"Look down upon me and have mercy on me according to the judgment of those who love your Name. For you first loved me, so that I might love you. By loving you, I love myself, and thus I am wisely able also to love my neighbor as myself.

Lord, teach me how to act; teach me how to do your will. For though I hear, and bear in mind what I hear, I am by no means supposed to have learned if I do not act."

-- Commentary on Psalm 118 (27), 5-8

Prayer. Lord, you first loved me, so that I might love you.

-- Commentary on Psalm 118 (27), 15

Augsut 12

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