“Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Dont make no difference what nobody says
Aint nobody like to be alone.

Everybody’s got a hungry heart…”

That was how Bruce Springsteen expressed something St. Augustine had understood 1600 years earlier: “Our hearts are restless until they rest in thee.”

Today is the great saint’s feast day (Gus, not Bruce), and to mark the morning, The Anchoress has posted Morning Prayer, complete with her beautiful chanting. She sounds much prettier than Springsteen.

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