Wonderful to think that a Mother’s prayers and tears could bring us to today’s feast of her son, St Augustine, who turns out to be a great blessing to the Church. His life of searching is summed up in this excerpt for his “Confessions” which I share with you today: “Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you! Lo, you were within but I outside, seeking there for you, and upon the shapely things you have made I rushed headlong – I, misshapen. You were with me, but I was not with you. They held me back far from you, those things which would have no being, were they not in you. You called, shouted, broke through my deafness; you flared, blazed, banished my blindness; you lavished your fragrance, I gasped; and now I pant for you; I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst; you touched me, and I burned for your peace.”