Prayers
Augustine — Prayer for Understanding
By Augustine of HippoSource: Augustine of Hippo - Confessions, Book I, Chapter 1 - Public Domain105 words
catholic contemplative prayer by Augustine of Hippo
This is prayers on understanding and seeking.
Grant me, Lord, to know and understand which is first, to call on thee or to praise thee; and again, to know thee or to call on thee. For who can call on thee, not knowing thee? For he that knoweth thee not may call on thee as other than thou art. Or is it rather that we call on thee that we may know thee?…
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