Augustine For Today

FEBRUARY 27 – SAINT GABRIEL

“If poverty pinches, if grief saddens, if pain overcomes us, if exile darkens our life, if anyother misfortune fills us with foreboding, let there be good friends at hand who know how to ‘weep with those who weep’ as well as ‘rejoice with those who rejoice.’ With such good friends such bitter trials are lessened, the heavy burdens are lightened, obstacles are met and overcome.”

Letter 130, 2.4