Saint Augustine: Sacra Theologia -"Sacred Theology"
St. Augustine of Hippo, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church Feast Day: August 28 St. Augustine is known for many great works in apologetics, exegetics, sermons, letters and treatises. His most well-known works are City of God , On the T rinity, and of course, his Confessions, which gives a personal testimony of his life of conversion. One particularly striking passage from his Confessions is presented for us in the Office of Readings on August 28: Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would not have been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew i
