That day
Friday, 17 December 2004
The verse
“Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”Matthew 5:16 · WEB
From the tradition
“Too late did I love Thee, O Fairness, so ancient, and yet so new! Too late did I love Thee!”
Augustine of Hippo · Confessions, Book X, chapter 27
In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. J. G. Pilkington, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, vol. 1, ed. Philip Schaff (1886)), checked against the source edition.