Sunday Evangelium - Totus2us

Fr Marcus: "We fast to realise and discover our hunger for God – Scripture is shot through with this theme – ‘like the deer that yearns for running streams so my soul is thirsting for you my God’, ‘O God, you are my God, for you I long, my body pines for you like a dry weary land without water’. Fasting allows us to realise this truth that ‘he has made us for himself and our hearts are restless until they rest in him’. St Augustine speaks of the Lord wooing the soul by delight, by desire, 'delectatio'. But he draws us not when we are emerged in sensual pleasures but when we are bereft, when our souls are in the desert place. The Lord is committed to a process of luring our souls from the cheap pleasures of this passing world to the real and substantial joys of eternity in union with Him, who is all love." Music by Edwin Fawcett. Visit Evangelium.co.uk for more about the Evangelium project and Totus2us.com for more great podcasts. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady i