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Rejoicing that Christ Goes to the Father

  • ST. AUGUSTINE

Let us praise the Lord, brothers and sisters, because we are holding his trustworthy promises.


augustine123When the Psalmist says, What shall I render to the Lord?  (116:12), they are the words of a debtor; something had been advanced to him.  What's What shall I render?  What shall I pay back?  What for?  For all the things he has rendered to me.  What has he rendered to me?  To begin with, I was nothing and he made me; I had gotten lost and he looked for me — looked for me and found me; I was a captive and he redeemed me; having bought me, he set me free; from a slave he made me into a brother.

So let us praise the Lord who is in heaven, dearly beloved. Let us praise God, let us say alleluia. Let us signify during these days the day that has no end. Let us signify in the place of mortality the time of immortality. Let us hasten to our eternal house and home. Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they will praise you forever and ever (Ps 84:5).  The law says it, Scripture says it, Truth says it.  We are going to come to the house of God, which is in heaven.  There we shall praise God, as it is written, forever and ever.  We shall see, we shall love, we shall praise.  Nor shall our seeing come to an end, nor shall our loving fade away, nor shall our praising ever be silent.  It will all be everlasting, all without end.  Let us praise him not only with our voices, though, but also with our behavior.  Let our tongues praise him, our lives praise him; let there be no quarrel between our tongues and our lives, but let them share an infinite charity.

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Acknowledgement

augustine Saint Augustine. "Rejoicing that Christ Goes to the Father."  from The works of Saint Augustine: v.1 Sermon 254. 

This excerpt is in the Office of Readings and in the public domain.

The Author

augustine augustine1 St. Augustine, known as Augustine of Hippo (354-430), is the greatest of the Latin Church fathers. His Confessions (400) is a classic of world literature and a spiritual autobiography as well as an original work of philosophy. The City of God (412-27) is a monumental work of 22 books which presents human history in terms of the conflict between the spiritual and the temporal, which will end in the triumph of the City of God, whose manifestation on earth is the Church.

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