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Augustine

He is Risen

April 12, 2009

All the Gospels refer to the period when the heavens were just beginning to brighten in the east. This, of course, does not take place until the sunrise is at hand. For it is the brightness which is diffused by the rising sun that is familiarly designated by the name of the dawn … For [...]

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Items of Interest: The Sin of Prideful Faith

March 6, 2009

For a man swollen with pride in comparison to another might say “My faith distinguishes me,” or “my justice,” or whatever. It is to prevent such ideas that the good teacher asks, “But what do you have that you have not received?” Did you not receive it from him who chose to distinguish you from [...]

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Items of Interest: The Strength and Weakness of Man

March 4, 2009

The chastening of a just God hath produced man’s weakness; for there is a kind of strength that is a fault. It was by a kind of strength that man offended so as to require to be corrected by weakness; for it was by pride in himself that he offended in Paradise so as to [...]

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Items of Interest: Take Up the Cross

February 11, 2009

Turn, rather, to these teachings, my very dear friend: take up your cross and follow the Lord. For, when I noticed that you were being slowed down in your divine purpose by your preoccupation with domestic cares, I felt that you were being carried and dragged by your cross rather than that you were carrying [...]

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Items of Interest: The Battered Heart

January 29, 2009

When you have to listen to abuse, that means you are being buffeted by the wind. When your anger is aroused, you are being tossed by the waves. So when the winds blow and the waves mount high, the boat is in danger, your heart is imperilled, your heart is taking a battering. On hearing [...]

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