“This is my body given for you; Do this in remembrance of me.”
Luke 22:19
The Confessions
St. Augustine
So late have I come to love you, beauty so ancient and so new, so late have I come to love you. You were inside me, and I was outside. And out there, I sought you. And I threw myself on those beautiful things that you created.
You were with me, but I was not with you. I was kept away by those things that only exist because they exist in you.
You called and yelled out, and broke through my deafness. You shined brilliantly and cured my blindness.
You exhaled your perfume, I have breathed it in. You have touched me and now I anxiously desire the peace that comes from you.
When I cling to you with all my being, there will be no more pain, nor work for me. Give me what you ask of me, then ask me for whatever you want.