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"God our Father, we find it difficult to come to you, because our knowledge of you is imperfect. In our ignorance we have imagined you to be our enemy; we have wrongly thought that you take pleasure in punishing our sins; and we have foolishly conceived you to be a tyrant over human life. But since Jesus came among us, he has shown that you are loving, that you are on our side against all that stunts life, and that our resentment against you was groundless. So we come to you, asking you to forgive our past ignorance, and wanting to know more and more of you and your forgiving love, through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Prayer of Saint Augustine)"
“Dios nuestro Padre, nos resulta difícil venir a ti, porque nuestro conocimiento de ti es imperfecto. En nuestra ignorancia te hemos imaginado como nuestro enemigo; hemos pensado erróneamente que disfrutas de castigar nuestros pecados; y te hemos concebido tontamente como un tirano sobre la vida humana. Pero desde que Jesús vino entre nosotros, ha demostrado que eres amoroso, que estás de nuestro lado contra todo lo que atrofia la vida, y que nuestro resentimiento contra ti era infrasante. Así que venimos a ti, pidiéndote que perdones nuestra ignorancia pasada, y queriendo saber más y más de ti y de tu amor indulgente, a través de Jesucristo nuestro Señor. (Oración de San Agustín)”