Augustine For Today

AUGUST 5 – DEDICATION OF SAINT MARY MAJOR

 “If it’s shameless of a farmer to look for a crop where he knows he hasn’t sown any seed, how much more shameless must it be to look to God to be rich in giving, when you have declined to listen to a poor man asking? It is in the poor person, after all, that the one who is never hungry has wished to be fed.”

            Sermon 206, 2