Further to the point that, though lacking nothing, God seeks:He sought youbefore you sought him, and he found you so that you might find him.[Quaesivit vos antequam quaereretis eum, et invenit vos ut inveniretis eum.] (Augustine, Enar. in Psalmum 138, 14)

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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