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Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Good Things
Augustine, Sermons 61.2 (Patrologia Latina, vol. 38, col. 410; tr. Edmund Hill):
Fishes, eggs, bread, apples, corn, this light, this air we breathe, they are all good.
Piscis, ovum, panis, pomum, frumentum, lux ista, aer iste quem ducimus, bona sunt haec.