Sunday, December 17, 2006
Advent reading for December 18
So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ. -- Romans 10:17
I have called to you, LORD; hasten to help me!
Hear my voice when I cry to you.
Let my prayer arise before you like incense,
the raising of my hands like an evening oblation.
-- Psalm 141:1-2
Give yourself to me, my God; restore yourself to me. I show you my love, but if it is too little, give me strength to love you more. All that I know is this: that unless you are with me, and not only beside me but in my very self, for me there is nothing but evil; and whatever riches I have, unless they are my God, they are only poverty. Amen.
-- Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
