Augustine – “Just-Do-It”

Before Nike coined the phrase “Just do it,” and long before the Cable Guy say, “Get ‘er done,” St. Augustine put it this way: But when God commands a thing to be done, against the customs or compact of any people, though it were never by them done heretofore, it is to be done; and [...]

If the older brother prayed…

Maybe these words from Augustine could be his prayer: Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in.  It is ruinous; repair Thou it.  It has within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it.  But who shall cleanse it?  Or to whom should i cry, save [...]