{"id":4210,"date":"2012-08-28T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T07:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/a-light-as-it-were-of-serenity\/"},"modified":"2012-08-28T07:52:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T07:52:13","slug":"a-light-as-it-were-of-serenity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/a-light-as-it-were-of-serenity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Light As It Were of Serenity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/augustinus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"augustinus.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/assets_c\/2012\/08\/augustinus-thumb-300x376-12525.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"376\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>From The Confessions of Saint Augustine:<\/em><\/small><br \/>\n<strong>Take Up and Read<\/strong><br \/>\nSo was I speaking and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when, lo! I heard from a neighbouring house a voice, as of boy or girl, I know not, chanting, and oft repeating, &#8220;Take up and read; Take up and read. &#8221; Instantly, my countenance altered, I began to think most intently whether children were wont in any kind of play to sing such words: nor could I remember ever to have heard the like.<br \/>\n<strong>As With Saint Antony<\/strong><br \/>\nSo checking the torrent of my tears, I arose; interpreting it to be no other than a command from God to open the book, and read the first chapter I should find. For I had heard of Antony, that coming in during the reading of the Gospel, he received the admonition, as if what was being read was spoken to him: Go, sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me: and by such oracle he was forthwith converted unto Thee.<br \/>\n<strong>I Seized, Opened, and in Silence Read<\/strong><br \/>\nEagerly then I returned to the place where Alypius was sitting; for there had I laid the volume of the Apostle when I arose thence. I seized, opened, and in silence read that section on which my eyes first fell: Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, in concupiscence.<br \/>\n<strong>Instantly <\/strong><br \/>\nNo further would I read; nor needed I: for instantly at the end of this sentence, by a light as it were of serenity infused into my heart, all the darkness of doubt vanished away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Confessions of Saint Augustine: Take Up and Read So was I speaking and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when, lo! I heard from a neighbouring house a voice, as of boy or girl, I know not, chanting, and oft repeating, &#8220;Take up and read; Take up and read. &#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florilegium"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-15U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}