Feast of St. Augustine

Today is the Feast of St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church. I highly recommend the Confessions of St. Augustine - the world's first autobiography - for anyone serious about any kind of spirituality, not just Catholics - it's a real classic that's not at all "uptight preachy" if ya know what I mean. Toward the end there's a little theology but it's not at all too much to handle.

Late have I loved Thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved Thee! And, behold, Thou wert within me and I myself on the outside, and it was there that I sought Thee. And into those lovely things, which Thou madest, all unlovely did I rush. Thou wert with me, but I was not with Thee. Those things kept me far from Thee, things that would not exist, unless they were in Thee.

Thou didst call, and shout, and shatter my deafness:
Thou didst sparkle, and shine, and dispel my blindness:
Thou sentest forth Thy fragrance, and I breathed deeply, and now I sigh for Thee:
I tasted, and now do hunger and thirst:
Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace.

-- The Confessions of St. Augustine.

Beautiful, ain't it.

See a short biography from Catholic Online