Fri.-Sabbath, 2/14-16/20 Devotion

Thank God: it is almost Sunday again.  We get to go back to church, to wor-ship God together, as the Body of Christ.  In order to help us get ready, here are some good words from Augustine.  These come from Bk. 14 of his, “City of God” masterpiece. . . .

“Hence it is that just because humility is the virtue especially esteemed in the City of God and so recommended to its citizens in their present pilgrimage on earth and because it is one that was particularly outstanding in Christ, its King, so it is that pride, the vice contrary to this virtue, is, as Holy Scripture tells us, especially dominant in Christ’s adversary, the devil.

“In fact, this is the main difference that distinguishes the two cities of which we are speaking.  The humble City is the society of holy men and good an-gels; the proud city is the society of wicked men and evil angels.  The one City began with the love of God; the other had its beginnings in the love of self."