Sunday, May 2, 2010

Blessed Augustine on the Samaritan Woman's Wondering About A Mountain on Which to Worship God

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O for a mountain to pray on, you cry, high and inaccessible, that I may be nearer to God, and God may hear me better, for He dwells on high. Yes, God dwells on high, but He has respect to the humble. Wherefore descend that you may ascend. "Ways on high are in their heart," it is said, "passing in the valley of tears," and in "tears" is humility. Would you pray in the temple? pray in yourself; but first do you become the temple of God.

http://www.orthodox.net/osb/05sunopa-catena.html

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