Late Have I Loved Thee: Selected Writings of Saint Augustine on Love-Fast Shipping

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The first collection of Saint Augustine’s varied writingson human and divine love—chosen to reflect his lifelong preoccupation with ordoamoris, the principle of rightly directed love.

“My weight is my love,” Saint Augustine writesin The Confessions. He sees our ability to love as disordered by sin, so that weoften choose badly what and how to love. Only by recognizing that we are commandedto love God first can any other object of our love be properly ordered, Late HaveI Loved Thee draws on the riches found in Augustine’s sermons, letters, treatises,and Scripture commentaries, as well as passages from The Confessions and City ofGod.

Augustine (354-430 A.D.) was the most prolific writer of Christian antiquityand the most influential theologian in Church history. In hisfirst encyclical, God Is Love, current Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges his indebtedness to him. Whenwe read Augustine today, we encounter the same direct, eloquent passions his originallisteners experienced, infused with his deep sense of human weakness and burningdesire for union with God.