Tuesday 28 August

St Augustine

2Thess. 2:1-3, 14-17; Psalm 96;
Matthew 23:23-26

Learn every day

We are imperfect pilgrims. Life and faith are long journeys. What we knew as certain truth as children, we discovered as false as adults. The map isn’t the journey. It is a guide that may get us there. Read today’s gospel and ask: when am I a hypocrite? What behaviours of mine are described there? Can I change and make progress? Am I open to the Spirit of God? And in the words of St Augustine: “We can, of course, have good hope for someone if the last day of this life finds him (or her) making progress.”