A Little Heart-to-Heart
Today starts the Novena to The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus !!! I have been reading Confessions of St. Augustine. In chapter 10, book 12, there is a prayer that I love to pray. You may want to read this slowly... Let Truth, the light of my heart, and not my own darkness, speak to me. I turned aside to these material things and became darkened, but from there, even there, I loved You. I have gone astray (Psalm 119:176) , and I remembered You (John 2:8). I heard Your voice behind me (Ez 3:12), calling me to return, though I could scarcely hear it amid the noise of sinners. And now, behold, I return, panting and gasping to Your fountain. Let no one forbid me. I shall drink of this fountain and so I shall live. Let me not continue to live as I have lived, for I acknowledge that I have lived badly. To myself I was death, and in You do I live again. Speak to me, discourse with me. I have believed Y...