22 October 2015, The Tablet

Spiritual readings – 24 October 2015


 
Come back to your heart, and from there, to God, for the path is not long from your heart to God. All of the difficulties that are troubling you come from what is outside of you, you who are the exile of your own heart. You let yourself be moved by what is outside of yourself and you lose yourself. You are within, they are outside; gold, silver, and all kinds of money, clothes, clients, the family … they are all outside.ST AUGUSTINEIN 15 DAYS OF PRAYER WITH ST AUGUSTINE BY JAIME GARCIA (NEW CITY PRESS, 2013)We all need to have beliefs, we are all in need of instruction, but the following of Christ is not primarily about our creeds: it is about letting God be the Spirit of love and compassion to us and through us in every moment of our lives. All our creeds are means to enable us to
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