St. Augustine, How Can Song Be A Prayer?
Question 040. Can song really be counted as prayer? Singing is proper to one in love… Jubilee is a sort of sound which means that the heart wants to give birth to that which cannot be uttered. And who deserves such jubilation if not the ineffable God? And ineffable is that which cannot be said or even touched. What remains if not jubilation in that the heart opens itself to a wordless joy, and the [...]
St. Augustine, How is the Liturgy the Source and Summit of Prayer?
Question 039. How is the liturgy the “source and the summit”? Man’s soul struggles onward towards that it loves so that it might rest upon reaching it. When the soul finds its delight in God, there she finds true, certain, eternal rest, for which it has vainly sought in other objects. from St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer by Fr. Ermatinger. The end of man is the praise and glory of God. This [...]