Sublime

It is the converted, baptized, ordained Augustine who confesses, “Onus mihi, oneri mihi sum”: “I am a burden to myself.”

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

For Augustine, we are made for joy. Joy is another name for the rest we find when we give ourselves over to the One who, for the joy that was set before him, gave himself for us. We find joy when we look for the satisfaction of our hungers in the Triune God who will never leave us or forsake us, when we find our enjoyment in an immortal God whose l

Augustine is our contemporary. He has directly and indirectly shaped the way we understand our pursuits, the call to authenticity.