Prayer of St. Augustine

O God,
who fills heaven and earth,
ever acting, ever at rest.
You who are everywhere and everywhere wholly present,
who are not absent even when far off,
who with Your whole being fill, yet transcend, all things.
Tou who teach the hearts of the faithful without the din of words,
teach us we pray,
through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

O God! our true and highest life,
by whom, through whom and in whom all things live
which live truly and blessedly;
by whom, through whom and in whom all good things
are good and lovely;
mercifully grant that Your life may be in ours for evermore,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We return unto You, O Lord,
that from their wanderings and weariness
our souls may rise towards You;
leaning on the things You have created
and passing on to Yourself, who has made them,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

-St. Augustine, in Evelyn Underhill's Prayer Book, ed. by Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and spiritual teacher


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