"What's it all about, Augustine?" This line, of course, sounds familiar to many people, the original being "what's it all about, alfie?" It is a song that
confronts one with a simple, yet deep question. It must have been the question
St. Augustine asked of himself while he begins to reflect on the wayward and dissolute life that he was leading. An intelligent professor, a good looking man, a well to do family... what else is there to ask for?
But amidst the questioning and the searching, he hears the word, "Tolle et lege"... "Take and read." He did take and read, and his life began to make the 360 degree turn from the world to God. And he found out, "You have made us for yourselves and our hearts are restless until they rest in you."
May St. Augustine's story inspire us to ask the simple yet difficult question, and heed the voice that speaks from deep within, "Take and read"... "come and rest in me..." Happy Feastday to all of his devotees!
