Posts tagged Office of readings

Readings on Corpus Christi

Tuesday 12 June 2012

On Sunday we celebrated Corpus Christi. The reading for the feast (on the Thrusday) was from St Thomas Aquinas: Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men gods. Moreover, when he took our […]

Engaging with Tradition 1.

Thursday 7 June 2012

Thoughts are still going through my head from a lecture a few weeks ago on Life in the Spirit and the Church. There was much discussion about the interaction between us as individuals and tradition and the teaching of the Church. A couple of days later, I remembered something from my degree days. One year […]

Thoughts from the Divine Office.

Wednesday 30 May 2012

I was struck yesterday and today by quotes from the Office of Readings, both from the Confessions of St Augustine and both speak of his experience of God. Yesterday’s was this: “Let me know you, O you who know me; then shall I know even as I am known. You are the strength of my […]

St Augustine on desire for God.

Friday 17 February 2012

I was struck by the second reading of the Office of Readings this morning. St Augustine writes on desire for God. If you don’t have a copy of the office, it can be read here. (This is a slightly different version to the one in the Office book) One paragraph that jumped out at me was […]