Augustine For Today

FEBRUARY 21- SAINT PETER DAMIAN

“The new will which had come to life in me and made me wish to serve you freely and enjoy you, my God, who are our only certain joy, was not yet strong enough to overcome the old, hardened as it was by the passage of time. So these two will within me, one old, one new, on the servant of the flesh, the other of the spirit, were in conflict and between them they tore my soul apart.”

Confessions VIII, 5