Augustine

Proud in the world, in hell a beggar

June 5, 2010

The Lutheran Study Bible has a wonderful quotation from Augustine on the Gospel appointed for tomorrow (Trinity 1), Luke 16.19-31, the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus: Proud in the world, in hell a beggar! For that poor man did attain to his crumbs; but the other attained not to the drop of water.

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Pentecost sermon

May 25, 2010

Employing technology is not morally or spiritually neutral. Scientific advancements bring new problems, as the tools we use end up using us, changing us. The invention of the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, and now mobile technologies have changed how and where people live, how we see the world and interact with each other. You’ve [...]

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Epiphany

January 6, 2010

Today’s Gospel: St. Matthew 2:1-12 St. Augustine, that great doctor of the Church, began his Confessions with this truth: Man bears his mortality with him, “carrying with him the witness of his sin…. Nevertheless,” he continues, “to praise you is the desire of man, a little piece of your creation. You stir man to take [...]

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Christmas Day sermon

December 26, 2009

Gospel: John 1:1-14 Dearly beloved: This bright morning, “The Ancient of Days has become an infant” [Chrysostom].  The Holy One leaps down from His royal throne to lie helpless in a feeding trough.  This bright morning, He who could not be touched has come among us, to be touched, not as a baby is touched, [...]

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Filioque

May 22, 2009

St. Augustine on the procession of the Spirit from the Father and the Son: Perhaps someone may ask whether the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son. For the Son is the Son of the Father alone, and the Father is Father only of the Son; but the Holy Ghost is not the Spirit of one [...]

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In this life we are pilgrims

October 12, 2008

And so, brethren, in this life we are pilgrims; we sigh in faith for our true country which we are unsure about.  Why do we not know the country whose citizens we are?  Because we have wandered so far away that we have forgotten it.  But the Lord Christ, the king of that land, came [...]

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The Law of Sin Is the Violence of Habit

September 26, 2008

The thoughts with which I meditated about You [O Lord] were like the efforts of those who would like to get up but are overcome by deep sleep and sink back again…. Often a man defers shaking off sleep when his limbs are heavy with slumber.  Although displeased with himself he is glad to take [...]

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Meditation on Psalm 9

August 27, 2008

Note: the readings at Evening Prayer were Matthew 5.1-11 and Acts 4.1-22 Tonight’s Psalm invites us to give our entire heart to the spiritual exercise of prayer and praise: “I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart.” We don’t do this. Our hearts are divided. We desire righteousness, but we are also [...]

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Help with Augustine Quote

March 25, 2008

I am looking for the source of the oft-quoted saying of Augustine of Hippo, “We are an Easter people, and Alleluia is our song.” (I am surprised that he would use the term “Easter,” and am suspicious that he may not have said it.) Anyone have any information beyond what the Google is providing for [...]

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Augustine

September 16, 2007

“St. Augustine spent forty years in a little African diocese, far from official honours, but he draws the gaze of all who seek the truth; he fights till the end, and till the end love rises in his soul. He dies at sixty-five in a besieged town, suffering, weeping at the catastrophes that have darkened [...]

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