Thank God, the Sabbath Day (Sunday) is almost here! We get to go back to church. In order to help us get ready for worship, here are great words from Augustine’s “City of God” book. (This comes from Book 8, Chapter 24). . . .
“ . . . What was established by infidelity was removed by faith; what was es-tablished by opposition to true religion was removed by conversion to the one true and holy God.
“The lament of Hermes [that the world was turning to Christ] was concerned only with Egypt; but the change was not confined to that country. It has hap-pened throughout the world, and the whole earth sings a new song to the Lord, as was truly prophesied in the Scriptures and in the writings of the prophets, where we read, ‘Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.’ And this is the title of the psalm just quoted: When the house was being built, after the captivity. Indeed this house, the City of God, which is the holy Church, is now being built in the whole world after the captivity in which the demons held captive those men who, on believing in God, have become like ‘living stones’ of which the house is being built."
