Practical Devotion of the Day: Take St. Augustine as an example

The youth of Augustine. Science and ingenuity were worth nothing without humility: proud of himself and of his laurels, he fell into such errors with the Manichaeans who, later on, astonished himself. Indeed, as the most humiliating falls are prepared for the proud, so Augustine plunged into impurity! It was in vain that his heart pounded and his mother scolded him; he saw himself on the wrong track, but he always said tomorrow ... Isn't that your case?

The conversion of Augustine. Patient, God, he waited thirty years. How much goodness and what a strong source of confidence for us! But Augustine, having known his mistake, humbles himself and cries. His conversion is so sincere that he is not afraid to make his confessions public as an amendment to his pride; it is so constant that, to the point of scruple, sin flees in the rest of life ... As for you, after so many sins, what is your repentance?

The love of Augustine. Only in the most ardent love did he find an outlet for repentance of the heart and a means to compensate God for the lost years. He complained of a heart too small to love more; in God alone he found peace; for love of him he practiced fasting, converted souls, inflamed his brothers with love; and every day as he began to do more, he became a seraph of love. How little I do for the love of God! How the example of the Saints must humiliate us!

PRACTICE. - He does all things with great love to imitate the Saint; recites three Pater to St. Augustine.