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                  Why Does Saint Augustine Have Two Feast Days?

                                “Take it and read, take it and read.”

                                   -Saint Augustine, Confessions

                             Trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin, Penguin Classics

Why does Saint Augustine have two feast days?
Because he speaks to both the East and West
A little child still says it to us twice
“Take it and read, take it and read.”
                                                                ­   We should listen