28th August, 2013 – Remembering St. Augustine
Yesterday was the mother, and today the son! St. Augustine is known
for his passionate search for truth! And in the process he came across the
Truth beyond all truth, the One Truth that accounts for all other truth and he
declared, “Late have I known thee!” The Word of God both encourages and
challenges us, explains St.Paul in the first reading and it depends on each of
us, what we make of these encouragements and demands! Being worthy of God is
the project that St. Paul proposes to us and it is a matter of the inner self.
No amount of exterior adornment or rationalisations or self-justifications can give the
internal peace, which comes only from a life of communion with oneself, with
others and with God. This in one word could be called, “Integrity” – and that
is what Jesus calls us to: a life of integrity.