Description of Heaven by Saint Augustine of Hippo

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Saint Augustine of Hippo was a tireless seeker of truth. He felt in his heart an immense hunger for the truth and for happiness. And he sought the truth in the philosophers of his time and sought happiness in the pleasures of life, especially in carnal love. And he was not satisfied. In his heart, there was a deep emptiness that did not let him rest in peace. He was not a man to be content with little. He was seeking fulfillment, seeking God without knowing it, and only when he found Him could he finally breathe and say, You made us, Lord, for You, and our hearts are unsatisfied until they rest in You. He is a good example for so many men of our time who also sincerely seek the truth, but in the wrong ways. Like Saint Augustine, some may despise the Catholic Church or the But it was through this path that Saint Augustine came to find God and the truth that he so longed for. Saint Augustine was a great saint and a great mystic, although some supernatural charisms, such as bilocation or the wounds of Christ, may not have manifested in him as in other saints. But we can appreciate in his life mystical gifts such as ecstasy, the gift of performing miracles, supernatural knowledge to understand the great mysteries of faith, such as the Holy Trinity, and above all, the greatest gift of all, that encompasses all others, the gift of love. Saint Augustine's entire life since his conversion was a total surrender to love. God was for him the goal and end of all the love in his heart. He loved others for him and through him. He felt inside him a powerful force that did not allow him to live in peace. It was an insatiable desire to love, and for everyone to love the love. The tireless search for the truth was deep down the tireless search to know and love more the love, which is God. His heart was a fiery furnace that could not be satisfied with the things of this world, and he fought and worked tirelessly to ignite the fire of the love of God in others. That is why his greatest joy was the salvation of heretics and the conversion of sinners. When Saint Augustine of Hippo becomes a Catholic, he feels the urgent desire to convert all his friends. And on fire with zeal for the glory of God, he feels that Africa seems small for his desires. And through his word and his writings, he wants to reach the whole world and all future generations to bring them the light of truth. Saint Augustine did not want to feel holy when he was alive in this world. He felt like a poor sinner and he wanted everyone to know that he had been a sinner. He felt the temptation of pride when everyone applauded him, and he did acts of humility by publishing his sins. He tried to say to everyone, Saint Augustine of Hippo identified so much with God, truth, love. For Saint Augustine, the lie was something hateful. Throughout his life, he did not stop crying out against the lie, to which he felt an almost instinctive horror. Saint Augustine was by nature essentially sincere and a friend of the truth. His entire life was an ascension to God through continual prayer. He tells us, Sometimes our Lord Jesus Christ made him feel his love in his prayer in an extraordinary way, like the great mystics. And he felt that his heart was too small to love him. He said, I will enter my secret room and there I will sing songs of love mixed with unspeakable groans to you who are the only one true and sovereign good. Saint Augustine has been called the doctor of love because the main aspect of his life was love and truth. He was in love with God and through God also towards others. To the point of being able to say to his faithful, The heart of Saint Augustine was a veritable volcano of fire. He had an insatiable love, without measure. He wanted with the fire of the love of God to warm and illuminate the whole world. Therefore, he could also say, You hurt my heart with your word, and I loved you. For you I sigh day and night. My God, my life, my sweetness. I embrace myself in the peace that comes from you. Saint Augustine loved the Virgin Mary very much as the mother of God and our mother, as a perpetual virgin and as immaculate, without any stain of original sin. Mary is also the new Eve, because through Eve came death and through Mary came life. Let's love Jesus. He is the most beautiful among the sons of men. He is the son of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the husband of the Holy Church, whom he made like his mother. For this reason, our Christian life must be that of following Christ, imitating the Virgin Mary. Saint Augustine of Hippo tells us, What you admire in the flesh of Mary work in the depths of our souls. He who professes an authentic faith conceives Christ, and he who confesses him with his mouth gives birth to Christ. Saint Augustine was a pastor who wanted the salvation of all his parishioners and wanted to separate them all from sin and error. And he said, I don't want to save myself without you. But in his apostolate to strengthen the faith of Catholics and convert those lost by error, he distinguished very well between person and error. He said, love the sinner not because he is a sinner, but because he is a man. And in relation to why God allows evil in the world, Saint Augustine tells us, God would not allow evils if he did not draw more goods from the same evils. In the end, what joy and blessing to be able to reach the truth in the Catholic faith, like Saint Augustine of Hippo himself, who said, I only know that my life was going very badly away from you, and that all the abundance that is not God is poverty. We are walkers and pilgrims in this life. We are going to the heavenly homeland. We wander, we sigh, we groan. But letters come to us from our homeland, and we read them. He refers to the messages of God written in the sacred scriptures or the Bible. Here we are tenants, in heaven we will be inhabitants. How immense will that happiness be where there will be no evil, where all good will be to the fullest, where all occupation will be to praise God, who will be everything for everyone. There we will live with total happiness because we will have God, since complete happiness consists of this, enjoying you for you and through you. This is happiness. And all those who think that happiness is something else, it is clear that the type of happiness they are looking for is another, and not authentic happiness. Lord, you are my God, for you I sigh day and night. Come to me my God, see how I love you, and if it's not enough, make me love you more strongly. God does not send impossible things. Do what you can and ask for what you cannot. So let us say to the Lord, give me what you send me and send me what you want. Remember that you are a beggar of God and everything is God's grace and gift. Be grateful, someday He will take you to heaven. In heaven we will have God as a common spectacular, we will have God as a common peace. He will be the perfect and full peace for all. There we will enjoy the greatness of His beauty, let's love Him before we see Him to reach His vision. There we will rest and contemplate, contemplate and love, love and praise. In heaven it will be the end that has no end. Oh Lord, you made us for you and our hearts are unsatisfied until they rest in you. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.