Words from Saint Ambrose

(An excerpt from today's Office of Reading....  I've lifted the parts that spoke most to me today.)


God’s word is uttered by those who repeat Christ’s teaching and meditate on his sayings. Let us always speak this word. When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking of Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking of Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking of Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking of Christ.

Open your lips, says Scripture, and let God’s word be heard. It is for you to open, it is for him to be heard.... Meditate, then, at all times on the things of God, and speak the things of God....  (From the Explanations of the Psalms by Saint Ambrose, bishop, Ps 36, 65-66: CSEL 64, 123-125)