Hello everyone. I hope you are well and keeping safe.
St. John Paul II often spoke about the "theology of the gift." The gift or presence to one another, the gift of self, the gift of praise to God. The gift of our thanks to God. The gift!
What a gift we have in St Augustine whose feast is today. When he finally gave himself over to the Lord and his mission of love, God gifted him with treasures that adorn the church and the world to this very day!
Happy Feast Day! Call upon St. Augustine to help you be a true gift to God and one another. But first accept the gifts that God gives you to share.
In the meantime here is a related quote from our friends over at the Franciscan Media Center.
When we exist in a world of gift, in which we ourselves are given, then our own labors must be gifts to those around us. To refuse that possibility is to refuse the thanksgiving to which we are properly called. Or, to put it another way, if we are not willing to see our lives and the creation as gifts, then we are not able to properly acknowledge our debts. Being so free, we then feel as though it is in our right to say that others owe us. Thus we can easily sell our labors, without any sense of obligation that perhaps we really owe them. That some should give their labors freely is then, properly, the response of those who owe what cannot be repaid—which includes us all.
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