March 4

Causes of Punishment

You who boast of the punishment you endure, do you fail to see that there were three crosses when our Lord suffered? The Lord suffered between two thieves.

It is not the punishment that distinguished them, but the cause for which they were punished.

-- Sermon 325, 2

Prayer. You are one God, and you come to my aid. In you nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess. In you the one who generates and the one generated are one alone.

-- Soliloquies 1, 4

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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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