Endpiece
Let my soul praise you, that it may love you,
that it may proclaim your compassion.
And that it may praise you for your compassion.
The entire universe never ceases to praise you.
It is never silent.
The human spirit turns to you in praise.
Animals, and even lifeless things, praise you
through the lips of those who contemplate them.
So our soul rises from its weariness,
leans on the things you have made,
and through them soars up to you,
who made all these amazing things.
And in you the soul finds strength and is restored.
(Confessions 5.2)
An extract from Finding Your Hidden Treasure
© 2010 Benignus O'Rourke OSA
Published by Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd
© Photo: Ian Wilson OSA
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SELECTED FURTHER READING
Augustine, Sermons; The City of God; Confessions; The Trinity
Bloom, Anthony: School for Prayer
Chapman, John: Spiritual Letters
Eckhart, Meister: Sermons
Eliot, George: Felix Holt
Gangaji: The Diamond in your Pocket
Hesse, Hermann: The Glass Bead Game
Hopkins, Gerard Manley: Collected Poems
Johnson, William: Letters to Contemplatives
Main, John: Letters from the Heart
Murdoch, Iris: The Good Apprentice
Merton, Thomas: Asian Journal
O'Donoghue, John: Divine Beauty
O'Leary, Daniel: Already Within
Pennington, Basil: O Holy Mountain
Pronzato, Allesandro: Meditations on the Sand
Tauler, Johann: Sermons
Thomas, R. S.: Collected Poems 1945 – 1990
Vickers, Salley: Miss Garnet's Angel
Watts, Alan: Behold the Spirit
Wiesel, Elie: Souls on Fire
Wordsworth, William: Poems
Yeats, W. B.: Poems
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Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone. Col 4:6