God wants to nourish us with milk not in order to keep us at the stage of childhood, but so that nourished by milk we may arrive at solid food, the bread of angels, the Word of God. “Our milk is the humble Christ, our food is the same Christ equal to the Father. He nourishes you with milk, in order to fill you with bread.”20 Need I develop further this doctrine of spiritual growth which is purely Pauline in inspiration?21 To anyone seeking a formula to sum up Augustinian spirituality I would like