“Shoulders are differentiated among themselves by the fact that some are weighed down by a load of sins, while others bear the burden of Christ.
It was these willing shoulders that Christ was looking for when he said, ‘My yoke is kindly and my burden light‘ (Matthew 11:30).
Every other burden oppresses you and feels heavy, but Christ’s burden lifts you up; any other burden is a crushing weight, but Christ’s burden has wings.”
–Saint Augustine, Expositions of the Psalms 51–72, trans. Maria Boulding, ed. John E. Rotelle, vol. 17, The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century (Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2001), 186. Augustine is commenting on Psalm 59:9.
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